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Regatta Sets Optimal Courses for 1,000 Boats With Pioneering Use of Visual Technology
White Papers Skandia Cowes Week Regatta - one of the largest competitions of its type in the world - set its sailing courses using pins and string on a wall-mounted chart of the waters, as it had for most of its 180 years.
[June 20, 2007, 1:00]
Can IBM's Regatta take on two rivals?
News IBM, which plans to announce on Friday that its top-end p690 "Regatta" Unix server is available in volume, had long planned the server as an assault on Sun Microsystems. With Friday's planned announcement, Regatta is crossing a crucial milestone...
[December 14, 2001, 12:14]
IBM Regatta sails into missile defence
News IBM plans to announce on Monday that it has won a deal to supply the Defense Department with 66 high-end p690 "Regatta" Unix servers to be used as part of the country's ground-based missile defense program.
[August 19, 2002, 8:24]
IBM pitches reliability for Regatta
News As a result, Regatta will figure out who's on first with a number of new hardware-software reliability features, starting with support for error-correcting code memory. The new approach combines eLiza ideas with new Regatta server features.
[August 22, 2001, 8:44]
Linux and AIX link up on IBM's biggest Unix server
News IBM used its long-awaited Regatta Unix server launch to trumpet its claim to the best price-performance high-end Unix server, and score points against Sun and Hewlett-Packard. As well as the much-leaked p690 Regatta server, the event also contained...
[October 4, 2001, 8:01]
RegattaX
Downloads RegattaX is a pair of games for Mac OS X, bringing to the Mac the classic dice game Yacht, plus a new, exciting variation called Regatta. Regatta is a fancy cousin of the classic game. Yacht is an old game played with five dice (numbered from one...
[March 28, 2008, 6:00]
It's Smooth Sailing for the Biggest Yachting Event in the World Thanks to Microsoft Web Solution Platform
White Papers Every summer more than 5,500 yachtsmen from 50 countries and some hundreds of thousands of fans make "Kieler Woche" in the north of Germany the highlight of the regatta season. Microsoft Windows DNA (Microsoft's Web solution platform), in...
[October 7, 2008, 0:00]
IBM and Sun launch Unix battle
News In contrast, a fully configured Regatta server cost more than $1m as of the product's release in October of last year. On Monday, sources said, IBM will announce its p670, a 16-processor system featuring the Power4 processor, which was previously...
[April 8, 2002, 8:53]
BlueWave Race
Downloads The perfect integration of Pocket PC, Bluetooth Technology and your existing Instrument System as a mobile and wireless Regatta Information Centre.The demand for navigational information below deck, as well as in the cabins is continuously growing...
[February 13, 2004, 6:00]
IBM edges out HP in server speed test
News By doubling the memory in its 32-processor p690 "Regatta" server from 256GB to 512GB, IBM increased its speed measurement from 403,000 to 428,000 transactions per minute, a smidgen faster than the 423,000 from HP's 64-processor Superdome.
[January 3, 2003, 8:05]
IBM gets behind physics research
News The University of Rochester will use five top-end p690 "Regatta" Unix servers from IBM for physics and computing research programmes, Big Blue plans to announce on Thursday. IBM awarded part of the hardware through a grant.
[October 24, 2002, 9:20]
IBM takes top spot in server-speed race
News IBM's p690 "Regatta" Unix server, introduced late in 2001, posted a score of 403,000 transactions per minute on a speed test called TPC-C, IBM said Thursday. Competitors leapfrog each other as new systems arrive, and IBM's 32-processor Regatta was...
[May 24, 2002, 12:02]
Unix servers fight it out for top spot
News The challenge pits Sun's 72-processor E15K Starcat server against IBM's 32-processor p690 "Regatta" machine. Sun Microsystems has leapfrogged ahead of IBM in one part of a contest to see whose top-end Unix server is more powerful.
[February 12, 2002, 11:46]
Fujitsu to unveil 128-CPU server
News IBM's 32-processor "Regatta" server is expected this fall as well. Regatta also will feature advances in "partitioning" capabilities that allow a server to be split into independent parts to handle different computing jobs.
[July 12, 2001, 12:33]
IBM plans top-end 'Armada' Unix server
News Armada, the successor to the 32-processor p690 "Regatta" system that IBM introduced more than a year ago, is a Unix server that will come closest so far to matching the capabilities of the company's vaunted mainframe systems.
[February 10, 2003, 11:55]
IBM expands use of server chip
News The Power4 processor first debuted late last year in IBM's p690 "Regatta" machine, the new top-of-the-line model in the pSeries Unix server family. IBM has brought its top server chip to a second of its server lines -- the iSeries -- Big Blue...
[April 30, 2002, 10:47]
Sun lets 'Starkitty' out of the bag
News Sun is aiming the new system at IBM's 32-processor p690 Regatta and HP's 64-processor Superdome. Sun unveiled its "Starkitty" Unix server on Tuesday, a 52-processor machine, which plugs a gap in the company's product line that Hewlett-Packard and...
[April 10, 2002, 9:25]
Supercomputers go even larger
News Hewlett-Packard's Superdome machine is common, while IBM's newer p690 "Regatta" model is beginning to make its presence felt. It's getting hard to keep a place on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers.
[June 21, 2002, 11:19]
IBM supercomputer looms large
News To get similar supercomputer power before the introduction of the p655, IBM customers had been grouping 16-processor p670 servers or 32-processor p690 "Regatta" servers into clusters. Bringing new meaning to the term "big iron", IBM has begun...
[November 18, 2002, 8:54]
IBM plots new Power server chips
News The Power5 and Power6 processors, to be detailed at IBM's analyst conference in New York and expected to arrive 2004 and 2006, are the successors to the highly regarded Power4 chip at the heart of the p690 "Regatta " Unix servers.
[April 26, 2002, 9:06]
