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Performance Modeling And Characterization (PMaC) Benchmarking On POWER4+ Platforms (II)
White Papers Performance evaluation of parallel applications on an HPC machine is complicated. To model the single processor performance of an application, the following are measured: bandwidth and latency of data storing and loading into the memory hierarchy...
[September 21, 2004, 0:00]
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).
[September 21, 2004, 0:00]
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]
Performance Tuning Of ICED On POWER4 Platforms
White Papers Independently Consistent Expression Discriminator (ICED) is a sample classification application for Microarray data analysis. While it is based on a robust algorithm, it can take a long time, sometimes even days, to complete a cross-validation test...
[September 24, 2004, 0:00]
Gaussian Performance Analysis On The IBM PSeries POWER4 Systems
White Papers This paper compares the performance of the new family of IBM POWER4 processors, eServer pSeries, such as the p630, p650, p655, p670 and p690. The pSeries 690 scales up to 32-way with 1.30 GHz POWER4 processors.
[September 28, 2004, 0:00]
AMBER7 Performance Analysis On The IBM PSeries POWER4 Systems
White Papers This paper presents a series of benchmarks to test the performance of the 1.00 GHz POWER4 p630, 1.45 GHz POWER4+ p630, 1.45 GHz POWER4+ p650, 1.10 GHz POWER4 p655, 1.30 GHz POWER4 p655, 1.10 GHz POWER4 p670, and 1.30 GHz POWER4 p690 IBM...
[September 28, 2004, 0:00]
PMaC Benchmarking On Three POWER4 Platforms
White Papers The performance tests of three POWER4 platforms, IBM eServer pSeries 690, 655, and 650 were evaluated using the PMaC Benchmark Suite. The PMaC benchmark tests can be used to meaningfully compare and predict machine performance on parallel...
[September 28, 2004, 0:00]
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 EServer PSeries Hardware Management Console Security
White Papers The pSeries Hardware Management Console (HMC) was introduced in 2001 at the same time as the POWER4 family of AIX 5L servers. It consists of a 32-bit Intel processor-based computer running a modified Linux operating system.
[September 1, 2006, 0:00]
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 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 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]
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]
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]
Intermountain Health Care Consolidates Servers To Lower Costs And Ease Administration
White Papers Intermountain Health Care has served the medical needs of Utah and Idaho residents for more than 25 years. Applications had outgrown their original servers as the organization had expanded. IHC turned to IBM to consolidate its servers using IBM...
[June 11, 2004, 0:00]
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]
