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BM on Monday launched its latest Power7 processor, which adds more cores and improved multithreading capabilities to boost the performance of servers requiring high up time. A Power7 chip can run 32 tasks simultaneously, which is quadruple the number of cores on the older Power6 chip. The new chip also has TurboCore technology, which allows customers to crank up the speed of active cores for performance gains. [2]
The scuttlebutt is that IBM seemed perfectly content to wait until May to launch the Power7-based Power Systems servers, but something changed and compelled the company to move up the announcement of its first machines using the eight-core processor to today. And by Unix, IBM apparently means both AIX and i/OS, which share the scalability, reliability, and energy-efficiency attributes of a system designed to support mission-critical workloads. [1]
Those same 65 nanometer processes were used to make the Power6 chips that were put in the midrange Power Systems machines in October 2008 and in entry boxes and blade servers in April 2009. [3]
The scuttlebutt is that IBM seemed perfectly content to wait until May to launch the Power7-based Power Systems servers, but something changed and compelled the company to move up the announcement of its first machines using the eight-core processor to today. And by Unix, IBM apparently means both AIX and i/OS, which share the scalability, reliability, and energy-efficiency attributes of a system designed to support mission-critical workloads. [1]
Those same 65 nanometer processes were used to make the Power6 chips that were put in the midrange Power Systems machines in October 2008 and in entry boxes and blade servers in April 2009. [3]