Article: IBM introduces processing monsters; * IBM's latest servers use gaming consoles technology to soup up performance.(International Business Machines Corp.)

Byline: Deni Connor

IBM last week launched two monster servers, the IBM System p5 590 and the 595, a 64-core machine capable of processing

4 million transactions a minute.

Faster than HP's Superdome, according to IBM's claims, the p5 595 running a single instance of IBM DB2 9 on AIX and connected

to the IBM System Storage DS4800, processed 4,016,222 transactions per minute on the TPC-C (Transaction Performance Council)

benchmark.

The servers use IBM's Virtualization Engine and are able to be partitioned into 10 virtual servers per processor core, allowing

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