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IBM To Unleash New PowerPC Chip
News IBM will put its PowerPC processor line back on the map on Monday when it talks up a speedy chip that promises a substantial performance boost for desktops and servers. The PowerPC 970 chip, due next year, will run at 1.8GHz, nearly twice as fast...
[October 14, 2002, 7:57]
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. A key ally in the Power effort is Apple, which uses the...
[December 22, 2004, 8:30]
IBM Pumps PowerPC Up To 2.5GHz
News IBM is to show off a prototype of its PowerPC 970 processor at the CeBIT trade show next month, the company said. A 1.8GHz PowerPC 970 dissipates 42 watts, according to IBM's figures, compared to 68.4 watts for a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 and 30 watts for a...
[February 28, 2003, 14:24]
IBM Power Blade Postponed Till June
News The JS20, which uses dual PowerPC 970 processors, already was delayed from a late 2003 launch to early March. The problem with the JS20 doesn't involve its processor, the PowerPC 970, Larkin said. However, shipments of Apple Computer's Xserve...
[May 25, 2004, 8:40]
IBM Readies Power6 Blades For Next Year
News Today, IBM's blade servers are available with the company's PowerPC 970 processors. PowerPC 970-based machines can run Linux and IBM's version of Unix, called AIX, but the Power6 blades also will run IBM's i5/OS, the operating system used on its...
[December 7, 2006, 11:17]
IBM's New Blades Remain On The Cutting Edge
News IBM's first blades used Intel processors, but the JS20 uses the PowerPC 970 chip that also appears in Apple's computers. Initial JS20 servers used a 1.6GHz PowerPC 970, but the new models use a 2.2GHz PowerPC 970FX, Dougherty said.
[October 8, 2004, 9:05]
Apple To Take The HyperTransport Route
News The PowerPC 970 can handle 32-bit software -- found on most desktops -- and 64-bit software, which is found on high-end servers. It may also discuss plans to adopt IBM's PowerPC 970 processor, sources have suggested.
[June 13, 2003, 14:10]
IBM Slips Blades Into All Servers
News This month, IBM began shipping its JS20 model, which uses two PowerPC 970 processors and runs Linux. In 2005, the Power blades will begin resembling IBM's Unix server line, with a system comprising four PowerPC 970 processors, Dougherty said.
[March 9, 2004, 7:30]
An Introduction To 64-Bit Computing And The PowerPC 970FX
White Papers However, with the introduction of the PowerPC 970 processor family, 64-bit computing is now available on the desktop, on value priced servers, and to the embedded community. 64-bit computing is well established on IBM's zSeries and POWER-based...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
IBM Sells Off PowerPC Processors
News IBM on Tuesday sold three of its PowerPC processors in a licensing deal with Applied Microcircuits, a 25-year-old networking and storage chip company. Under the agreement, IBM will transfer its PowerPC 403, 405 and 440 processors to Applied...
[April 13, 2004, 16:55]
Medical College Of Wisconsin Uses Cutting-Edge Technologies To Speed Results From Proteomics Research
White Papers The solution to this was achieved by deploying a high-performance Linux on POWER computing environment from IBM built on an IBM eServer BladeCenter chassis containing eight IBM BladeCenter JS20 blade servers running 64-bit SUSE LINUX Enterprise...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
IBM Carves Out Four-processor Xeon Blades
News IBM is to launch its first four-processor blade server on Wednesday, the Xeon-powered BladeCenter HS40, complementing its current two-way Xeon and PowerPC blades. It will work with the same BladeCenter chassis as the HS20 and the PowerPC 970-based...
[January 6, 2004, 11:55]
PlayStation Chip Sharpens IBM's BladeCenter
News IBM introduced its overhauled blade server line on Wednesday, upgrading its core components and touting forthcoming options based on Xeon, PowerPC and Cell chips at the same time. The revamp begins with a new chassis, BladeCenter H, and a higher...
[February 9, 2006, 8:25]
IBM Pushes Power Chip Power Savings
News IBM's new dual-core PowerPC 970MP processor employs several features to let the chip consume less power when possible. The PowerPC 970MP reduces its power consumption in a number of ways, Norman Rohrer, IBM distinguished engineer, said in a speech...
[October 26, 2005, 10:10]
US Army Contractor Buys Mac Supercomputer
News Much of the credit to Apple's successes thus far is due to the processor it uses -- IBM's PowerPC 970 -- Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff said. PowerPC is a fast processor. A US Army contractor has purchased a $5.8m, 1,566-server supercomputer from...
[June 22, 2004, 10:20]
Apple Ripe For Power Mac Overhaul
News Apple is preparing to introduce a new line of machines that are built around IBM's speedy new PowerPC 970 chip, analysts say, in a move that won't erase the "gigahertz gap," but should at least narrow the chasm.
[June 20, 2003, 15:06]
New Entries Join Supercomputing Top 10
News Of the top 10 systems on a list of the 500 most powerful supercomputers announced on Sunday, three machines are new, one is upgraded, and two are based on processors that have never before appeared on the list: IBM's PowerPC 970 and Advanced Micro...
[November 17, 2003, 9:20]
Jobs: G5 Power Macs Will Outperform Any Windows PC
News Speaking at the company's annual developer conference, Jobs announced that the Power Macs will be built around IBM's new PowerPC 970 chip and come in three flavours -- a 1.6GHz model, a 1.8GHz model and a dual processor 2GHz model.
[June 24, 2003, 9:16]
Reading Supercomputer Tackles Climate Change
News The university has upgraded its IBM BladeCenter with 700 JS21 blades, equipped with 3,040 IBM PowerPC 970 processor cores, each running at a 2.3GHz clock speed. The University of Reading now has the most powerful academic supercomputer in the UK...
[July 11, 2007, 12:55]
IBM Sharpens Blade Plans For 2003
News The Power blades, first demonstrated in October, will use the PowerPC 970 processor. IBM has sold 5,000 blade servers since launching its BladeCenter product less than three months ago, and the computing giant plans to announce several new, more...
[February 13, 2003, 10:22]
