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IBM Pitches Reliability For Regatta
News Regatta also borrows from IBM's Project eLiza, a set of self-management technologies designed to keep systems running in the face of errors by taking affected components offline. The technologies will go into creating IBM's forthcoming Regatta...
[August 22, 2001, 8:44]
IBM Regatta Sails Into Missile Defence
News IBM plans to announce on Monday that it has won a deal to supply the Defense Department with 66 high-end p690 "Regatta" Unix servers to be used as part of the country's ground-based missile defense program.
[August 19, 2002, 8:24]
Can IBM's Regatta Take On Two Rivals?
News IBM, which plans to announce on Friday that its top-end p690 "Regatta" Unix server is available in volume, had long planned the server as an assault on Sun Microsystems. Although IBM prefers to position the 32-processor Regatta against Sun's 72...
[December 14, 2001, 12:14]
IBM Takes Top Spot In Server-speed Race
News IBM's p690 "Regatta" Unix server, introduced late in 2001, posted a score of 403,000 transactions per minute on a speed test called TPC-C, IBM said Thursday. Competitors leapfrog each other as new systems arrive, and IBM's 32-processor Regatta was...
[May 24, 2002, 12:02]
Linux And AIX Link Up On IBM's Biggest Unix Server
News IBM used its long-awaited Regatta Unix server launch to trumpet its claim to the best price-performance high-end Unix server, and score points against Sun and Hewlett-Packard. As well as the much-leaked p690 Regatta server, the event also contained...
[October 4, 2001, 8:01]
IBM Edges Out HP In Server Speed Test
News By doubling the memory in its 32-processor p690 "Regatta" server from 256GB to 512GB, IBM increased its speed measurement from 403,000 to 428,000 transactions per minute, a smidgen faster than the 423,000 from HP's 64-processor Superdome.
[January 3, 2003, 8:05]
IBM And Sun Launch Unix Battle
News On Monday, sources said, IBM will announce its p670, a 16-processor system featuring the Power4 processor, which was previously available only in the high-end, 32-processor p690 "Regatta" system that went on sale in late 2001.
[April 8, 2002, 8:53]
IBM Plans Top-end 'Armada' Unix Server
News Armada, the successor to the 32-processor p690 "Regatta" system that IBM introduced more than a year ago, is a Unix server that will come closest so far to matching the capabilities of the company's vaunted mainframe systems.
[February 10, 2003, 11:55]
IBM Expands Use Of Server Chip
News The Power4 processor first debuted late last year in IBM's p690 "Regatta" machine, the new top-of-the-line model in the pSeries Unix server family. IBM has brought its top server chip to a second of its server lines -- the iSeries -- Big Blue...
[April 30, 2002, 10:47]
IBM Plots New Power Server Chips
News The Power5 and Power6 processors, to be detailed at IBM's analyst conference in New York and expected to arrive 2004 and 2006, are the successors to the highly regarded Power4 chip at the heart of the p690 "Regatta " Unix servers.
[April 26, 2002, 9:06]
IBM Edges Sun Out Of Server Top Spot
News An IBM representative said the company benefited from sales of its new high-end p690 "Regatta" server. IBM chalked up a hard-won victory in the fourth quarter of last year, capturing more revenue than any company in the worldwide market for Unix...
[March 11, 2002, 8:44]
IBM Names New Unix Server Chief
News IBM has a growing part of that market and hopes to gain more with its new top-end 32-processor Regatta server. IBM has named Val Rahmani, a 20-year IBM veteran, to lead its reinvigorated Unix server division at a key moment, as Big Blue stands to...
[October 24, 2001, 15:45]
IBM Supercomputer Looms Large
News To get similar supercomputer power before the introduction of the p655, IBM customers had been grouping 16-processor p670 servers or 32-processor p690 "Regatta" servers into clusters. Bringing new meaning to the term "big iron", IBM has begun...
[November 18, 2002, 8:54]
IBM To Build Power4 Supercomputer
News IBM will also offer the chip in its 32-processor Regatta servers, this fall. 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...
[July 23, 2001, 10:01]
IBM Upgrades Unix Software
News The features work on IBM's newer Unix servers, such as the p690 "Regatta", its sibling the p670, and the lower-end p630. IBM on Tuesday will release improvements to its AIX version of Unix that makes the software better able to juggle multiple jobs...
[October 8, 2002, 7:24]
Fujitsu To Unveil 128-CPU Server
News IBM's 32-processor "Regatta" server is expected this fall as well. Regatta also will feature advances in "partitioning" capabilities that allow a server to be split into independent parts to handle different computing jobs.
[July 12, 2001, 12:33]
IBM To Launch Lower-cost Power4 Server
News The chip sits inside the p690 Regatta server introduced last October. 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.
[June 24, 2002, 11:49]
IBM Unix Servers Take Battle To The Mid-range
News IBM is lying third in Unix market share with 15 percent, according to IDC figures, although it claims its so-called "Regatta" servers have greater than 50 percent of the market for Unix servers costing more than $500,000.
[November 11, 2002, 5:00]
IBM, Screensaver To Tackle Smallpox
News IBM is providing back-end infrastructure to the effort, including more than one of its top-end p690 "Regatta" servers, DB2 software and its enterprise storage server "Shark" system. IBM and a host of technology partners are working on software for...
[February 5, 2003, 8:21]
IBM Server Takes Aim At Intel's Patch
News The Power4, which debuted in the 32-processor p690 "Regatta" in late 2001, will be succeeded next year by the more powerful Power5 with the coming 64-processor "Squadron" server. IBM has brought its Power4+ processor to the low end of its Unix...
[May 28, 2003, 9:11]
