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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JULY 7, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 27
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Breaking News -
Platforms:
IBM Reaches Power5
Milestone
IBM announced that the first servers based on its next generation POWER5
microprocessors are up and running in IBM's Poughkeepsie Labs. Initial
internal performance tests indicate that POWER5 based eServer systems are
expected to offer four times the system performance over the first POWER4
based servers.
POWER5 based eServer systems are expected to start shipping to customers
next year in IBM eServer pSeries and iSeries systems as well as IBM
TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server.
"This is a significant milestone for IBM and our customers," said Adalio
Sanchez, general manager, IBM eServer pSeries. "Since its inception IBM
has delivered the POWER technology roadmap with substantial performance
improvement from one generation to the next. IBM is committed to winning
by consistently delivering customers the best performing technology at the
lowest possible cost."
POWER5 based eServer pSeries systems will be available with AIX -- the
industry's fastest growing UNIX operating system -- or Linux, offering
customers the widest possible choice for proven application support.
IBM previously announced that the Department of Energy will use over 12,000
POWER5 microprocessors to power ASCI Purple, the world's first
supercomputer that will be capable of up to 100 teraflops of processing
power, which will be more than twice as fast as the most powerful computer
in existence today.
IBM's POWER family of microprocessors is among the most widely used in the
industry and can be found in Nintendo game consoles, Apple computers and
some of the world's most powerful supercomputers and storage systems.
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