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Performance And Scalability Benchmark: Siebel CRM Release 7.7 Industry Applications On IBM EServer P690 And IBM DB2 UDB On EServer P5 570
White Papers This white paper describes the performance and scalability capabilities of Oracle's Siebel Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Applications Release 7.7. The benchmark comprised 20,000 concurrent users running Siebel CRM Release 7.7 industry...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Native GPFS Benchmarks In An Integrated P690/AIX And X335/Linux Environment
White Papers This paper gives a brief over the series of benchmark tests which were completed at the IBM Benchmarking Center. The primary goal of these tests was to evaluate GPFS performance for HPC applications in a mixed p690/AIX and x335/Linux environment.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Running HPL LINPACK On IBM P690 EServer PSeries Clusters With SP Switch2-PCI Interconnect
White Papers The intent of this paper is to make recommendations for running the HPL version of LINPACK on IBM eServer pSeries p690 (1.3 Ghz POWER4) clusters with SP Switch2-PCI interconnect. HPL uses MPI to run a single LINPACK calculation in parallel across...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Configuring P690 In An IBM EServer Cluster 1600
White Papers The objective of this paper is to help you understand the support for IBM eServer pSeries 690 model 681 (Regatta) in an eServer Cluster 1600 configuration. It provides how-to technical information on integrating p690 in an eServer Cluster 1600 or...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Configuring Highly Available P690 Clusters Using HACMP 4.5
White Papers The objective of this paper is to provide how-to technical information about configuring highly available clusters using HACMP 4.5 with IBM eServer pSeries 690 servers. This paper describes, in detail, installation, customization and configuration...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
PMB-2.2.1 Benchmarking On POWER4+ Platforms P655+ And P690+
White Papers The PMB-2.2.1 benchmark was completed on POWER4+ platforms p690+ and p655+. Point-to-point performance was measured between two processes within the same node (memory performance), or between two nodes (network performance).
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
IBM EServer PSeries 690 HPC SPECweb99 Performance
White Papers The IBM eServer pSeries 690 set a world record in SPECweb99 benchmark in October 2001. A 16-way p690 HPC running AIX 5L V5.1 and Zeus 4.0 achieved an astonishing 21,000 simultaneous connections. The p690 HPC beats its nearest competitor (the HP...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
IBM Builds On-demand Power Into New Hardware
News IBM said on Thursday it was shipping its new mainframe and servers, including its top-end p690 Unix server, a system the company claims will be 65 percent faster than its predecessor and which will let customers rent more computing power as needed.
[June 19, 2003, 10:28]
LPAR Heterogeneous Workloads On The IBM EServer PSeries 690 System
White Papers This paper describes a server consolidation experience of combining a variety of significant workloads onto a single large IBM eServer pSeries 690 (p690) system in multiple independent logical partitions (LPARs) running differing levels of AIX 5.1...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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]
Unix Servers Fight It Out For Top Spot
News Sun Microsystems has leapfrogged ahead of IBM in one part of a contest to see whose top-end Unix server is more powerful. The challenge pits Sun's 72-processor E15K Starcat server against IBM's 32-processor p690 "Regatta" machine.
[February 12, 2002, 11:46]
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]
Bioscience Deal Spurns HP For Rivals
News IBM and EMC have landed large contracts to install servers and storage systems at Applera, a major life-sciences company that once relied on Compaq Computer for its complex computing needs. Under the deal, IBM will install a 12-strong cluster of 32...
[September 27, 2002, 7:48]
IBM Spreads Linux Across More Servers
News IBM on Tuesday is expected to announce an expansion of its sales of Linux on server hardware. The company will begin selling Linux on its entire pSeries line of Unix servers, will cut the product line's prices, and will bring faster 1.9GHz Power4...
[February 24, 2004, 11:35]
IBM EServer PSeries 690 With The HPC Feature
White Papers This paper describes a feature of the IBM eServer pSeries 690 targeted for the High Performance Computing (HPC) customer whose application workload requires high memory bandwidth for better performance and throughput.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Comparing Linux Clusters For The Community Climate System Model
White Papers In this paper, the authors examine the performance of two components of the NCAR Community Climate System Model (CCSM) executing on clusters with a variety of microprocessor architectures and interconnects.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
UK Academics Get £53m Supercomputer
News UK researchers are to have access to the largest scientific supercomputing service in Europe by the end of the year, following a deal to build a £53m supercomputer near Warrington in Cheshire. The supercomputer has been commissioned by the...
[July 17, 2002, 16:20]
Sun Lets 'Starkitty' Out Of The Bag
News Sun unveiled its "Starkitty" Unix server on Tuesday, a 52-processor machine, which plugs a gap in the company's product line that Hewlett-Packard and IBM were able to exploit. The machine, with as many as 52 900MHz UltraSparc III processors, 288GB...
[April 10, 2002, 9:25]
Supercomputers Go Even Larger
News It's getting hard to keep a place on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers. The Top500 ranking of supercomputers, released twice a year by researchers at the universities of Tennessee and Mannheim, Germany, experienced heavy turnover, with...
[June 21, 2002, 11:19]
Supercomputer Predicts Big Blue Skies
News Apparently, you not only need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, you need one who's got an IBM supercomputer. At least the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts seems to think so.
[December 24, 2001, 11:08]
