News Burst: IBM's POWER3 Chip Launched
News POWER3 has been designed by the team that gave life to Deep Blue, the supercomputer that took on chess grand master Garry Kasparov last year and won. The processor was introduced on IBM's new, high-performance RS/6000 43P Model 260 graphical...
[October 6, 1998, 9:57]
Copper Supercharges Supercomputers
News Deep Blue? Meet Deep Copper. IBM will unveil a new generation of supercomputers it says offers a major performance increase by using IBM Power3 processors with copper interconnect technology. Called RS/6000 SP, the new supercomputer will offer up...
[February 10, 2000, 11:02]
IBM Claims Fastest Unix Workstation
News IBM on Thursday proclaimed itself fastest of the fast in low-end Unix uniprocessor workstations. The company announced a pair of additions to its entry-level RS/6000 44 P Model 170 Unix workstation, which the company claims will make the machine...
[December 29, 2000, 9:10]
Big Blue Extends Deep Into Business Arena
News The new supercomputer is an example of IBM's effort to commercialise Deep Computing, which is the capacity to tie together unprecedented computer processing power and advanced software and algorithms to solve complex problems and derive meaning...
[February 2, 1999, 16:14]
Big Blue Flexes Supercomputing Muscle
News IBM and the US federal government will on Wednesday unveil a system that ranks as the world's most powerful supercomputer. The pair will declare ASCI White open for business during a dedication ceremony to be held at the Lawrence Livermore National...
[August 15, 2001, 9:21]
Ab Initio Quantum Chemistry On The IBM PSeries 690
White Papers This paper compares the performance of the POWER3 processor and the new IBM eServer pSeries 690. The pSeries 690 can scale up to 32-way POWER4 processor at 1.3 GHz and 1.1 GHz. To perform this comparison the Gaussian98 Revision A.11 series of...
[September 30, 2004, 0:00]
RS/6000 7044 Model 270: Technical Overview And Introduction
White Papers This paper provides a brief history, a general description, and a technical overview of the 44P Model 270 including: the 64-bit copper technology of the POWER3-II processor, the error checking and correcting (ECC) memory subsystem, the advanced...
[October 1, 2004, 0:00]
RS/6000 7044 Model 170: Technical Overview And Introduction
White Papers The IBM RS/6000 family is a scalable, software-compatible line of RISC UNIX workstations, servers, and supercomputers powered by IBMs AIX operating system. This paper provides a brief history, a general description, and a technical overview of the...
[October 1, 2004, 0:00]
News Burst: IBM Supercomputer Seeks Objects In Space
News The Air Force Space Surveillance Team based in Maui, Hawaii, announced Tuesday that it has selected IBM's SP supercomputer to identify objects in space that are being tracked by Air Force telescopes. The supercomputer uses 320 IBM Power3-II...
[November 22, 2000, 11:52]
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]
IBM Unifies Unix, Intel Workstation Lines
News IBM is unifying its two workstation lines under a single product name for both types, Big Blue will announce on Tuesday. The IntelliStation product name, which covers Intel-based workstations running either Linux or Windows, now will also be used...
[February 5, 2002, 10:57]
IBM To Fill Out Copper Server Line
News IBM is expected to introduce three new mid-range RS/6000 servers, featuring the company's prized copper chip technology, later this spring. In May, the company is slated to debut its F80, H80 and M80 servers.
[March 21, 2000, 7:47]
