OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/18339/IBM_Launches_16-Core_Processor_Server Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:42:49 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com That's a hardcore system. http://osnews.com/thread?258640 http://osnews.com/thread?258640
The i570 can support up to 160 virtual server partitions...

Not bad for a system originally designed for small to medium sized businesses. Looks like IBM is heading for ultra flexible as well.

The company also introduced a new "pay-as-you-use" pricing structure, in which users start from one of three base System i configurations and add processing power and functions, such as transaction processing, on a per-processor basis.

seems to me that this alone will make the system interesting for medium business database servers as hedging your bets becomes less mistake prone. Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SReilly) Comments 16-Core Processor Server http://osnews.com/thread?258699 http://osnews.com/thread?258699 A processor server - sounds like something from Plan9! Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:36:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fretinator) Comments RE: 16-Core Processor Server http://osnews.com/thread?258713 http://osnews.com/thread?258713 """
A processor server - sounds like something from Plan9!
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The movie or the Operating System? ;-)Edited 2007-07-27 15:13 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sbergman27) Comments RE[2]: 16-Core Processor Server http://osnews.com/thread?258740 http://osnews.com/thread?258740 This is a OS news site so of course the movie. Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:45:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mongoslam) Comments System i is the most scalable system IBM makes http://osnews.com/thread?259190 http://osnews.com/thread?259190 These systems that are coming out now benchmark really well, and they're not even running hw/sw tuned for the chip -- that's coming next year.

The interesting thing about the "i" isn't the hardware. The operating system is extremely interesting from a computer science point of view. Concepts that are becoming interesting -- managed memory, "fat" binaries for portability are two that come to mind -- are things similar to what the OS has had since its inception nearly 30 years ago. Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rdean400) Comments