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. The System i 570 uses the 4.7GHz Power6, launched in May, with up to 16 cores, a processor that has come top in many industry benchmarks.
Not bad for a system originally designed for small to medium sized businesses. Looks like IBM is heading for ultra flexible as well.
seems to me that this alone will make the system interesting for medium business database servers as hedging your bets becomes less mistake prone.
A processor server – sounds like something from Plan9!
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A processor server – sounds like something from Plan9!
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The movie or the Operating System? 😉
Edited 2007-07-27 15:13
This is a OS news site so of course the movie.
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.