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Article: IBM introduces processing monsters; * IBM's latest servers use gaming consoles technology to soup up performance.(International Business Machines Corp.)
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- Network World
- Article date:
- August 3, 2006
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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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