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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. The Armonk, New York company announced Friday that it will build a supercomputer capable of 4.24 trillion calculations per second for the Korea Institute of...
[July 23, 2001, 10:01]
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. The new server, the p630, cuts costs by reducing the number of processors required to build a machine.
[June 24, 2002, 11:49]
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]
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. Though the server chip has a different name and a different design, Power4 is essentially a PowerPC processor...
[August 9, 2002, 9:03]
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 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 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]
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 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. Big Blue's p615 previously had a 1.2GHz version of the Power4+ chip...
[October 20, 2003, 12:45]
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 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 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 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]
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]
IBM plots new Power server chips
News IBM will disclose details on Friday of its future server chips, the most important piece of hardware in Big Blue's years-long battle to dethrone Sun Microsystems from the top of the $21bn Unix server market.
[April 26, 2002, 9:06]
IBM pitches reliability for Regatta
News IBM intends to apply some old routines to make its new servers more reliable. The company revealed several new technologies, under a blanket theme called "Who's on First" on Tuesday at Stanford University's Hot Chips conference.
[August 22, 2001, 8:44]
Patents a virtue for IBM
News IBM will announce on Monday that it was the top recipient of US patents in 2002. Big Blue was awarded 3,288 patents during the past year, making it the top recipient among private sector companies for the 10th year in a row, according to the US...
[January 13, 2003, 7:44]
Big Blue to let Squadron fly at Sun and HP
News IBM will announce two new top-end Unix servers Friday, opening major new challenges to Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. The new servers are the biggest iron in IBM's "Squadron" family of servers using the Power5 processor, a chip that has two...
[October 15, 2004, 9:20]
IBM prepares second phase of Power5
News IBM plans to announce its new generation of Unix servers on 13 July, kicking off the second phase of the debut of its Power5 processors, sources said. Big Blue is expected to announce models with two, four and 16 processors, sources familiar with...
[July 5, 2004, 9:20]
