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IBM offers
Linux Blades on Power 4 cores and Itanium 2 SMPs,.. |
IBM offers Linux Blades on Power 4 cores
and Itanium 2 SMPs - News Review - International Business Machines
Corp.
IBM made two server announcements last month, putting a dense
Blade formation of its own PowerPC chips into a 64-bit High Performance
Computing server, the JS20 running Linux now with AIX to come.
It has also swapped out the Intel Xeons in its xSeries 450, replacing
them with Itanium 2s, in configurations of up to 16 CPUs, aimed
at fast transaction servers for Windows and Linux, dubbed the
xSeries 455. Both architectures existed previously, but only with
Intel Xeon chips at their heart.The BladeCenter JS20 has the PowerPC
970 core and supports both SuSE Linux and Turbolinux. Red Hat
Linux and AIX support will follow.
The PPC 970 is derived from the same Power4 technology currently
used in IBM eServer pSeries systems that support Unix and Linux
applications. The JS20 is the cheapest IBM Power based server
it has put out yet, with a starting price of $2,699 aimed at customers
in financial services, research and life sciences. This machine
pretty much takes in the low end of IBM's July-launched AHD Opteron
multiprocessor, targeted at much the same markets but in far larger
processor configurations when it delivered what it called the
world's largest supercomputer with it, based on the eServer 325
and using 2,636 processors including 1,058 eServer 325 and running
SuSE Linux. The individual eServer 325 prices started at $2,919
by comparison with the above price for the JS20..
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