IBM tops server speed test
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New top-end Power5-based Unix server has commanding lead in performance test of servers running a large database.
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InfoWorld - Targeting Unix archrivals Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems, IBM on Friday topped off the high end of its Power 5-based line of iSeries and pSeries servers, rolling out three systems all capable of hosting as many as 250 virtual servers on a single machine.
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NEW YORK, September 29  - International Business Machines Corporation (IBM.NYS) has claimed to have developed the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer.
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IBM Corp. claimed unofficial bragging rights Tuesday as owner of the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer. For three years running, the fastest supercomputer has been NEC&#39;s Earth Simulator in Japan.
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'Opteron more efficient than Xeon' Computer performance consulting firm Neal Nelson &amp; Associates claims that AMD-based servers have beaten Intel in 36 of the 57 power efficiency tests it has conducted. The tests put an AMD Opteron-based server up against an Intel Xeon-based server.â¦
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The United States grabbed top honors in the race for the world&#39;s fastest supercomputer, beating out the Japanese computer that has held the title for more than two years.
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MacCentral - With performance almost double that of the Earth Simulator, in Yokohama, Japan, IBM Corp.'s Blue Gene/L on Monday was officially ranked first on the Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. IBM built four of the top ten machines on the biannual list, which was set to be announced Monday evening at the SC2004 conference in Pittsburgh. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University reappeared on the list, finishing in seventh position five months after dropping off the June list because of a hardware upgrade to Apple Computer Inc.'s Xserve systems. ...
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AN IBM machine has reclaimed the title of world&#39;s fastest supercomputer, overtaking a Japanese model which caused shock waves within United States government agencies when it set a computing speed record in 2002.
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IBM&#39;s Blue Gene/L supercomputer has recaptured the speed record briefly held by Silicon Graphics Columbia system. Blue Gene/L, which is being installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, hit 70.
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Apple upgraded its Xserve 1U rack optimized server to deliver dual 64-bit 2.3 GHz PowerPC G5 processors with over 35 gigaflops of processing power per system. With the industry&#146;s fastest front side 1U server system bus, running at up to 1.15 GHz, Xserve offers up to 9.2 GBps of bandwidth per processor and up to three 400GB drives, achieving a groundbreaking 1.2TB of hot-plug storage. With configurations starting at just $2,999, it is the ideal server for everything from file and print serving to computational clusters. [Jan 04]
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IBM yesterday announced that a prototype supercomputer had surpassed the computing power of the NEC Earth Simulator in Japan, currently the world&#39;s most powerful machine.
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On Monday IBM&#39;s BlueGene/L was placed first on a list of the world&#39;s 500 fastest computers. The ranking is issued twice each year.
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We're sure. Kinda Not satisfied with flexing its machismo through the zippy 4.0+GHz Power6 chip, IBM appears to have a couple rather radical notions in mind to improve its Unix server performance over the next couple of years.â¦
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An IBM machine has reclaimed the title of world&#39;s fastest supercomputer, overtaking a Japanese computer that had caused shock waves at US government agencies when it set a computing speed record in 2002.
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IBM announced that an IBM POWER5(TM) processor-based IBM eServer(TM), running DB2Â® Universal Database(TM), has attained a milestone in computing history, soaring past the barrier of three million transactions per minute on the TPC-C benchmark and setting
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IBM has introduced three new POWER5 processor-based servers that the company says outpace Sun and HP in performance records and establish a new standard for server virtualization capabilities.
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In September, IBM announced that the Blue Gene/L prototype had sustained speeds of 36 trillion calculations per second. Last week, NASA announced that a system built by Silicon Graphics had topped that by sustaining 42 trillion calculations per second.