IBM at a press event in San Francisco unveiled a Power6 based highest-end server – the Power 595. The Power 595 uses up to eight four socket boards and each socket can use either 4.2GHz or 5GHz Dual-core Power6 Chips, resulting in a massive 32 processors in each box. The server supports up to 4TB of DDR2 memory. IBM said that their Power 595 server would outperform Sun’s SPARC servers and HP’s Itanium servers by a factor of 2x to 3x. The servers will be released on May 6th. IBM also released their Power 575 servers that can fit up to 14 2U boards with 16 4.7GHz processors per board. IBM calls the system supercomputing machine. The 575 server uses water-cooling reducing typical data center energy consumption by 40% when compared to air-cooled 575s. IBM has benchmarked a single 575 board at 600 GFlops that is 5 times the performance of older 575 systems. IBM also refreshed 570 servers and added a “hot node” feature that lets customers add additional systems to an already running box for extra performance and storage. All the new servers will be available in May and run on both UNIX and Linux.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
IBM Releases Dual-core 5GHz Power6 Processors
IBM at a press event in San Francisco unveiled a Power6 based highest-end server – the Power 595. The Power 595 uses up to eight four socket boards and each socket can use either 4.2GHz or 5GHz Dual-core Power6 Chips, resulting in a massive 32 processors in each box. The server supports up to 4TB of DDR2 memory. IBM said that their Power 595 server would outperform Sun’s SPARC servers and HP’s Itanium servers by a factor of 2x to 3x. The servers will be released on May 6th. IBM also released their Power 575 servers that can fit up to 14 2U boards with 16 4.7GHz processors per board. IBM calls the system supercomputing machine. The 575 server uses water-cooling reducing typical data center energy consumption by 40% when compared to air-cooled 575s. IBM has benchmarked a single 575 board at 600 GFlops that is 5 times the performance of older 575 systems. IBM also refreshed 570 servers and added a “hot node” feature that lets customers add additional systems to an already running box for extra performance and storage. All the new servers will be available in May and run on both UNIX and Linux.
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