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IBM To Build Power4 Supercomputer
News IBM has inked a deal to provide what it says will be one of the 10 largest supercomputers. Under the agreement, worth $27m (£18m), IBM will begin installing the machine late in the year and finish early in 2003.
[July 23, 2001, 10:01]
Gaussian Performance Analysis On The IBM PSeries POWER4 Systems
White Papers This paper compares the performance of the new family of IBM POWER4 processors, eServer pSeries, such as the p630, p650, p655, p670 and p690. The pSeries 690 scales up to 32-way with 1.30 GHz POWER4 processors.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
AMBER7 Performance Analysis On The IBM PSeries POWER4 Systems
White Papers This paper presents a series of benchmarks to test the performance of the 1.00 GHz POWER4 p630, 1.45 GHz POWER4+ p630, 1.45 GHz POWER4+ p650, 1.10 GHz POWER4 p655, 1.30 GHz POWER4 p655, 1.10 GHz POWER4 p670, and 1.30 GHz POWER4 p690 IBM...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
IBM EServer POWER4 System Microarchitecture
White Papers In this paper, IBM describes the processor microarchitecture as well as the interconnection architecture employed to form systems up to a 32-way symmetric multiprocessor. POWER4 introduces a new microprocessor organized in a system structure that...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
IBM Speeds Up Low-end Unix Server
News IBM will upgrade its least expensive Unix server with its newest Power processor in an effort to keep pressure on longtime leader Sun Microsystems. IBM's four-processor p630, originally announced in June 2002, with a 1GHz Power4 processor, will now...
[February 24, 2003, 5:54]
IBM To Launch Lower-cost Power4 Server
News IBM will come out with a new server next week that will let the company bring its Power4 processor to the middle range of the Unix server market. Along with the new package for the Power4, IBM will be able to adjust the configurations of the new...
[June 24, 2002, 11:49]
IBM Server Takes Aim At Intel's Patch
News IBM has brought its Power4+ processor to the low end of its Unix server line, making the new chip an option across the company's entire line a year and a half after it was first introduced. IBM plans to announce the new system, the dual-processor...
[May 28, 2003, 9:11]
IBM And Sun Launch Unix Battle
News IBM and Sun Microsystems next week will release duelling Unix servers one notch below their top-end models, fueling the flames in a price and market-share war. On Monday, sources said, IBM will announce its p670, a 16-processor system featuring the...
[April 8, 2002, 8:53]
IBM Expands Lineup For Linux On Power4
News IBM is set to release a new edition of its WebSphere business software for versions of Linux that run on its iSeries and pSeries servers - systems that use its Power4 processor. The move, announced on Wednesday, begins to flesh out the software...
[July 10, 2003, 10:28]
Power5 To Add Brawn To Servers
News IBM has fired up a computer running IBM's forthcoming Power5 processor, a top IBM executive said on Monday, predicting that systems with the new chip will have four times the performance than those using the current Power4.
[February 18, 2003, 9:21]
IBM Supercomputers To Simulate Climate Change
News The University of California, Irvine has bought eight IBM computers to run an interconnected collection of global climate simulations. The overall system, which cost more than $1m (£0.54m), consists of eight p655 machines, each with eight 1.5GHz...
[February 11, 2004, 10:20]
IBM Spreads Linux Across More Servers
News IBM on Tuesday is expected to announce an expansion of its sales of Linux on server hardware. Until now, Big Blue has offered Linux only on a handful of lower-end pSeries machines, which more often run IBM's version of Unix, called AIX.
[February 24, 2004, 11:35]
IBM To Build Europe's Biggest Supercomputer
News Germany's Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences has awarded IBM a multimillion-dollar contract to build Europe's largest non-classified supercomputer, IBM announced to-day. The deal, worth "tens of millions of dollars," will see...
[May 18, 2001, 15:13]
IBM Brings Speed To The Low End
News IBM is bringing a faster processor to its lowest-end p615 Unix server and announced new software and hardware on Thursday for joining its servers to form a supercomputing cluster. A system with 4GB of memory costs $14,495 (£8,669) with AIX, IBM's...
[October 20, 2003, 12:45]
How IBM Plans To Change The Chip World
News But IBM executives say the new line might ultimately have a greater impact on personal computing than recently announced 1GHz desktop PC chips from AMD and Intel, which last week announced their new entries.
[March 15, 2000, 14:19]
IBM Expands Use Of Server Chip
News IBM has brought its top server chip to a second of its server lines -- the iSeries -- Big Blue announced on Monday.iSeries servers, which run IBM's OS/400 and which were formerly called AS/400 servers, typically are sold with tightly integrated...
[April 30, 2002, 10:47]
IBM Debuts Linux-only Server
News IBM will announce a new low-end server on Wednesday, its first Power processor-based system that can run the Linux operating system without needing IBM's AIX as well. IBM's pSeries machines already are available with Linux but have also required...
[December 4, 2002, 11:04]
IBM Seeks To Make Virtualisation 'ubiquitous'
News In 2005, IBM plans to bring a significant feature from higher-end servers to the next generation of its PowerPC 970 processor line used in Apple machines and Big Blue's own blade servers. The next-generation chip will have technology that lets it...
[December 22, 2004, 8:30]
Intermountain Health Care Consolidates Servers To Lower Costs And Ease Administration
White Papers IHC turned to IBM to consolidate its servers using IBM eServer pSeries system technology with POWER4+ architecture. Intermountain Health Care has served the medical needs of Utah and Idaho residents for more than 25 years.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
IBM Breeds PowerPC Chip From Server DNA
News IBM is brewing a new, more formidable desktop PowerPC chip for desktop computers using technology from its Power4 processor for servers. However, IBM is also wooing Apple, sources familiar with the chip said.
[August 9, 2002, 9:03]
