Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> IBM Chip Claims To Crush Itanium to Bits
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> | The p 570 can run SUSE Linux 10 SP1 or later and sometime in Q3 Red Hat
> | 4.5 or later as well as AIX 5.2 or later.
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> | The chip itself, which also itself comes in 3.5GHz and 4.2GHz versions,
> | is supposed to be the first MPU that can calculate decimal
> | floating-point arithmetic in hardware, a task generally done
> | by software.
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> http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/382634_p.htm
"IBM says the Power6 can also move live virtual machines from one physical
Unix server to another while maintaining continuous availability"
I knew this would come eventually, but it's still really nice to see it in
print. Quite a magical feat I would say.
"The Power6 chip's 300 Gbps bandwidth makes it capable of downloading
Apple's entire iTunes catalog of five million songs in 60 seconds"
Phew, I have enough trouble keeping up with the music I've already
downloaded. I've rebought whole albums because I forgot I already bought it
a year or so ago. I've yet to see a good catalogue for the music you have
onboard and the music you have in that pile of DVDs at the back of your
desk under last weeks toast. Even those I wrote myself were naff, or should
that be especially those I wrote myself are naff.
"The box starts at $60k"
Well that isn't very fair is it, keep the good stuff for the rich while us
poor folk have to scrape together computers from solder splat and old
capacitors scattered around the floor. Well IBM, the number of times I've
given you and WebSphere a plug in here you must admit that I ought to be
first to receive one of these boxes. It keeps things right because I was
one of the first to receive an IBM PC, they were sent to the MOD labs. I
even remember the first hardware/software I designed for it to control some
wind tunnel amps, after which (as everyone who programmed on an early DOS
machine) I wrote a decent editor because the other one had gotten on my
tits so much with the first project that I was determined to have a better
one for the second project.
So if you could pop a Power6 machine in the post for me I'd be ever so
chuffed.
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