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IBM Summit Server Prepares For Takeoff
News IBM will begin preliminary shipments of its first "Summit" servers in early December, the company announced on Monday, marking a key moment in Big Blue's effort to make systems based on Intel chips as serious as its other product lines.
[November 29, 2001, 14:39]
Comdex 2001: IBM Prepares Sequel To Summit Server
News Since the program began in October 1998, IBM has improved memory and the PCI communications subsystem, but Summit represents a major overhaul. IBM has been working on chipset called Summit and now formally named Enterprise X Architecture that hooks...
[November 14, 2001, 10:02]
Comdex 2001: IBM Takes High Road With Summit Chipset
News The servers, which use IBM's own chipset technology, code-named Summit, will launch first with Intel Xeon processors. The Summit chipset also allows IBM to incorporate mainframe-like features such as the ability to swap out memory and processors...
[November 13, 2001, 14:47]
Dell Ditches IBM Server Design For Intel
News Dell has dumped a deal to sell high-end Intel servers using IBM's proprietary "Summit" technology and instead is jointly developing a new chipset with Intel, a senior Dell executive said. But Dell didn't like IBM's terms for Summit, Russell Holt...
[June 10, 2002, 11:34]
Comdex 2001: IBM Shows Off Enterprise X Servers
News The servers, which use IBM's own chipset technology, code-named Summit, will launch first with Intel Xeon processors. As previously reported, the Summit chipset also allows IBM to incorporate mainframe-like features such as the ability to swap out...
[November 14, 2001, 9:51]
IBM Furthers Server Push With New Machine
News Two key technologies inside the x360 are IBM's "Summit" chipset and the upcoming Xeon chip from Intel code-named Foster. Summit, formally called the XA-32, is designed to provide IBM systems with performance advantages at a relatively low cost.
[December 28, 2001, 10:48]
IBM Wagers On Utility Computing
News While many high-profile technology providers, such as Intel, Exodus Communications and Loudcloud, have been forced to exit the hosting business, IBM's persistence and focus on high-value services -- enabled through its software -- are starting to...
[March 23, 2004, 10:50]
US Special Report: Intel And IBM Do Java
News At the summit, Tirado refused to discuss details of the new JavaStation, but said the first step for Sun and IBM would be to "evangelise" Sun's Webtop, which IBM, Oracle and Lotus have agreed to support.
[April 22, 1998, 8:55]
Google Joins Open Source-patent Network
News He pointed out some of the high-profile ways in which Google has given back to the open-source community, such as the open source-oriented Summer of Code training programme, and funding of external projects, such as the Ubuntu Developer Summit and...
[August 8, 2007, 9:34]
KDE Developers Focus On Accessibility
News Accessibility is a major theme at the KDE Community World Summit, currently taking place in Ludwigsburg, Germany. On 22 and 23 August the summit held a Unix Accessibility Forum, bringing together developers and people with disabilities.
[August 25, 2004, 17:35]
Interview: Open-source Advocate Eben Moglen
News The former general counsel to the Free Software Foundation was at the Red Hat Summit in San Diego on Thursday to put his considerable oratorical skills to use, updating attendees around the soon-to-be-launched third instalment of the GNU General...
[May 11, 2007, 15:15]
Utility Computing Is "the Next Big Thing"
News According to a recent report from Summit Strategies, utility computing is on track to be the "next big thing" for IT vendors and services companies that sell to large enterprises. Read more of Summit Strategies' views of utility computing.
[March 5, 2003, 11:38]
IBM Takes On Sun's Server Dominance Pt II
News Now, with advances such as 16-CPU Intel servers based on IBM's Summit supporting chips: "We're not a joke anymore. Technology sharing also has boosted IBM's Intel server line. IBM's strategy to push Linux across all four of the main server lines...
[March 20, 2001, 8:52]
IBM Sharpens Blade Plans For 2003
News The approach would use a variant of IBM's EXA "Summit" chipset, which can use high-speed cables to link four-processor groups into eight-, 12- and 16-processor x440 servers, Benck said in an interview.
[February 13, 2003, 10:22]
IBM Packs 64 Xeons Into A Single Server
News The 64-processor machine, like the first-generation 16-Xeon x440 and second-generation 32-Xeon x445, uses a version of IBM's Enterprise X Architecture (EXA) chipset, code-named Summit. Eunice believes that the design of Summit systems means the...
[January 15, 2004, 8:00]
First Foster Server Makes Mainframe Features Mainstream
News It turns out that the Summit name has already been taken by a keg beer refrigerator, which resembles an IBM mid-range server, so it seems likely that Fosters may well already be installed in plenty of Summits out there.
[November 29, 2001, 16:24]
IBM Promises Rewards From Utility Vision
News Right now, IBM is probably the leader, said Summit Strategies analyst Tom Kucharvy. IBM will release software at the end of September to let customers start sampling some of the promised benefits of the utility computing vision.
[September 2, 2003, 9:10]
IBM Touts Second Itanium
News EXA, code-named Summit, first arrived in another incarnation to support Intel's Xeon processors in IBM's 16-processor x440 system. IBM announced on Monday the launch of its second Itanium server, a more powerful machine that can accommodate as many...
[November 11, 2003, 7:35]
Microsoft On Trial: IBM A Thorn In Microsoft's Side?
News IBM's testifying could be a big deal for both companies [IBM and Microsoft]," says Dwight Davis, an analyst with Summit Strategies, based in Kirkland, Washington. IBM officials declined to comment on the significance of Norris' upcoming court...
[May 5, 1999, 9:59]
IBM Changes Directions In Magnetic Memory
News At the Flash Memory Summit last week, Freescale's David Bondurant said MRAM "may not go beyond" 65nm. At IBM, manipulating magnetic fields are out, and spin-polarised electrons are in. IBM has linked with Japan's TDK to develop so-called spin...
[August 20, 2007, 9:45]
