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Photos: IBM's new Power6
News IBM is aiming to break all records with Monday's launch of Power6, the latest iteration of its Power architecture. Shown here are the System p570 servers being prepared for delivery at IBM's plant in Rochester, Minnesota.
[May 22, 2007, 18:02]
IBM challenges Sun and HP with Power6
News IBM today launched its Power6 processor, which the company said represented a new challenge to Sun and HP and a potential coup de grâce to Intel's Itanium processor. The new processor is available from Monday in two-, four-, eight- and 16-core...
[May 21, 2007, 17:41]
IBM readies Power6 blades for next year
News Beginning with its Power6 dual-core chip, IBM will build its high-end Power processors into blade servers for the first time in 2007, marking a significant expansion of blade abilities. Today, IBM's blade servers are available with the company's...
[December 7, 2006, 11:17]
SAS 9.1.3 SP4 on IBM System p 570 POWER6 Processor-Based Server
White Papers IBM System p 570 is powered by the 64-bit, 4.7 GHz, IBM POWER6 processors. The POWER6 processor is the next generation of the IBM POWER5 family of microprocessors. The IBM System p 570 server with IBM AIX Version 5.3 operating system demonstrated...
[April 9, 2008, 1:02]
A POWER6 Virtualization Performance Study Using Integrated Virtual Ethernet
White Papers Data latency has long been a top concern for corporations where less than a millisecond can determine whether revenue is lost or made. The introduction of the IBM POWER6 processor-based server brought to market several advances in server design...
[April 9, 2008, 1:02]
An Assessment of Leadership Performance With POWER6 Processors and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1
White Papers Compute-intensive performance is increasingly required for today's high-performance environments. The IBM System p 570 with POWER6 processors provides leadership performance and demonstrates excellent scalability moving from one node to four nodes...
[April 9, 2008, 1:02]
IBM launches 16-core processor server
News IBM has announced a version of its System i business server range that uses the company's Power6 processor, which the tech giant claims is the fastest chip it has ever built. Announced this week, the System i 570 uses the 4.7GHz Power6, launched in...
[July 26, 2007, 16:42]
Clock frequency race hots up
News Judging by details revealed in a chip conference agenda, the clock frequency race isn't over yet. IBM's Power6 processor will be able to exceed 5GHz (five gigahertz) in a high-performance mode, and the second-generation Cell Broadband Engine...
[January 2, 2007, 8:23]
SAP and IBM offer joint cloud migration
News SAP and IBM on Tuesday unveiled a cloud migration service at the CeBIT 2009 show in Hanover, aimed at moving of SAP applications across Power6 systems and via cloud computing. The companies are developing the service as part of the Reservoir cloud...
[March 5, 2009, 11:05]
IBM System p Virtualization Technologies - Workload Partitions (WPARs) and Shared Processor LPARs
White Papers The paper describes related capabilities of System p Advanced POWER Virtualization (APV) and AIX with respect to resource virtualization and mobility. It focuses on the Shared Processor LPAR (SPLPAR) feature of POWER5 and POWER6 based System p...
[April 9, 2008, 1:02]
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]
On the Unix frontline at IBM
News All the growth in the server market is with Microsoft Windows and Linux, so why did IBM bother introducing gargantuan 32-processor Unix servers last week? Because there's money to be made, according to Ross Mauri, who took over as general manager...
[August 11, 2006, 11:05]
Itanium slips further into trouble
Leader Eschatology is rarely listed as a key competency on the CVs of the IT elite. The study of the end times, it has a sorry history that's been repeated again and again. Various sects and religions confidently predict The End Of The World and a bright...
[October 25, 2005, 14:55]
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]
Improved Price/Performance for Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne on System I
White Papers The performance measurements documented in this paper again demonstrate the scalability and performance of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne on System i which showed improved performance with the new POWER6 processor technology.
[April 9, 2008, 1:02]
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 goes open source on supercomputers
News IBM has released its first certified open-source software for Linux-based supercomputers, marking the tenth anniversary of its involvement with Linux. Released at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco on Tuesday, the IBM HPC Open Software...
[August 6, 2008, 14:54]
IBM's chip future may woo Sun
News IBM moved the battle of the microprocessor vendors up a notch on Monday when it revealed that it was developing a new manufacturing method for its Power range that promised speeds of 4-5GHz — twice as fast as the processors' current top speed.
[February 7, 2006, 15:35]
CSI: Santa Clara - solving the $10bn mystery
Leader HP's launch of its Arches chipset, powering the latest generation of Integrity and Superdome servers, is a strong reminder that processors aren't everything. Arches supports 3TB more memory than its predecessor, has a new crossbar switch with twice...
[March 21, 2006, 16:00]
Efficient servers may get 'Energy Star'
News The US Environmental Protection Agency gives its Energy Star certification to energy-efficient refrigerators, DVD players, windows, air conditioners and light bulbs. Now it's considering adding servers to the list.
[January 2, 2007, 7:41]
