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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 puts Power5 in low-cost Unix server
News IBM on Tuesday announced its least expensive Unix server to date with its new Power5 processor, the p5-510. The new machine uses a chip with one or two processing engines and accommodates as much as 32GB of memory, IBM said.
[February 9, 2005, 8:40]
IBM prepares second phase of Power5
Talkback Interesting article.it occurs to me that if, or when IBM shares the Power5 chips with Apple, the war of the operating systems could be moot? Am I reading this right? Does this sound like a computer that could run 10 operating systems?
[July 5, 2004, 21:16]
Advanced Virtualization Capabilities of POWER5 Systems
White Papers IBM POWER5 systems combine enhancements in the IBM PowerPC processor architecture with greatly enhanced firmware to significantly increase the virtualization capabilities of IBM POWER servers. The POWER hypervisor, the basis of the IBM...
[November 29, 2005, 0:00]
IBM's Power5+ chip boosts top-end Unix servers
News IBM has brought the Power5+ processor to its top-end Unix servers, completing the transition and boosting performance during a period of rapid change in the server market. The company's 16-processor System p5-590 and 32-processor p5-595 will ship...
[July 25, 2006, 10:30]
Big Blue finishes Power5 line
News IBM on Tuesday will fill in the ranks of its iSeries line of Power5 servers with a machine it says can juggle multiple jobs. Big Blue will debut its eServer i5 550, an iSeries machine it created to serve mid-sized businesses and to bridge the gap...
[August 17, 2004, 9:15]
Life Sciences Applications on IBM POWER5 and AIX 5L Version 5.3: Virtualization Exploitation Through Micro-Partitioning Implementation
White Papers This paper presents a series of benchmarks that exploit virtualization features using IBM POWER5 technology and IBM AIX 5L Version 5.3. It defines virtual benchmarks based on new functionality introduced in IBM eServer iSeries and pSeries POWER5...
[September 27, 2005, 3:00]
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]
IBM gives Power5 servers dual-core boost
News IBM will boost the processing power of its p5-575 server, a machine geared for high-performance technical computing tasks, the company plans to announce on Monday. Today, each p5-575 ships with eight Power5 chips, but each chip has only one of its...
[June 20, 2005, 9:25]
IBM goes on the Power5 offensive
News IBM is expected to announce a new generation of Unix servers on Tuesday, systems it believes powerful enough to let Big Blue topple rivals Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. As previously reported, IBM will announce low-end and midrange models...
[July 13, 2004, 9:05]
Four-way Power leads new Unix charge for IBM
News IBM plans to announce several new Unix servers on Tuesday, including a midrange p5 570 system with faster Power5+ processors running at 2.2GHz. Until now, the Power5+ ran at a top speed of 1.9GHz, the same top speed its fastest Power5 predecessor.
[February 14, 2006, 8:10]
IBM 'Squadron' ready for action
News IBM has powered up a prototype of "Squadron" its coming high-end Unix server with 64 Power5 processors, an important step in Big Blue's plans to unify its four server lines. We manufactured our first big system.
[March 19, 2003, 8:04]
IBM furthers multithreading revolution
News IBM will bring multithreading -- a technology that lets one processor act like two or more -- to its Power5 server chip, the company said on Tuesday, as a revolution in microprocessor design continues.
[August 20, 2003, 9:55]
IBM conserves power with new chip
News IBM's upcoming Power5 will include new features to curtail the chip's consumption of electrical current, the company said on Tuesday. The Dynamic Power Management technology can execute "50 percent more instructions using same amount of energy...
[October 15, 2003, 8:40]
IBM server speeds past rivals
News IBM's new top-end Power5-based Unix server has a commanding lead in a performance test of servers running a large database. A $16.7m configuration of the company's eServer p5-595 performed 3.21 million transactions per minute on the TPC-C test from...
[November 19, 2004, 7:45]
Four-way Power leads new Unix charge for IBM
Talkback IBM has taken 3 years to get beyond 1.9GHz. Power4+ at 1.9GHz was announced in 2003! IBM told the world that Power5 would reach well above 3GHz during 2005 and now almost a year later, its at a dismal 2.2GHz?
[February 14, 2006, 19:47]
IBM Integrated Virtualization Manager: Lowering the Cost of Entry Into Advanced POWER Virtualization
White Papers Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM) provides an interface to many of the POWER5 and POWER5+ partitioning and virtualization features that are nowadays require a Hardware Management Console (HMC). The HMC can be cost prohibitive for a smaller to...
[February 9, 2007, 0:00]
IBM plans top-end 'Armada' Unix server
News IBM plans to release a new top-end Unix server in 2004, a 64-processor machine code-named Armada that will feature the company's coming Power5 processor, a senior Big Blue executive has confirmed. Armada, the successor to the 32-processor p690...
[February 10, 2003, 11:55]
Observations Using SMT on an Oracle 9i OLTP Workload
White Papers Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) is a hardware multithreading technology which enables the execution of multiple instructions from multiple code paths, or hardware threads, in a single CPU clock cycle.
[January 4, 2006, 0:01]
How DB2 Exploits IBM eServer p5 And AIX 5L Simultaneous Multithreading
White Papers By executing multiple threads on the same processor at the same time, Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) enables concurrent execution of multiple instruction streams to help optimize processor utilization.
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