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A Banking Application: Fundtech Global PAYplus Test Results on IBM POWER5+: A group of United Kingdom banks made plans to reduce payment times of transactions involving telephone or Internet instructions from customers from days to seconds. The Faster Payments Initiative is a proposal to update their payment systems to enable connection with the new central infrastructure. They plan to implement this...; Tags: Payment, Banking, IBM POWER5+, IBM Corp., Faster Payments Initiative, Operational Accounting, Finance; White papers 2007-01-24
IBM System p Advanced POWER Virtualization Best Practices: This paper provides best practices for planning, installing, maintaining, and operating the functions available using the Advanced POWER Virtualization feature on IBM System p5 servers. The Advanced POWER Virtualization feature is a combination of hardware and software that supports and manages the virtual I/O environment on IBM POWER5 and POWER5+...; Tags: IBM POWER5+, IBM Corp., Advanced POWER Virtualization Feature, Virtualization, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components; White papers 2006-10-01
Intel launches long-awaited Montecito Itanium: Intel launches long-awaited Montecito ItaniumPOWER 5+ is still highly in useYou are referring to the Cell which is a massive redesign for scalability. I don't think it will be going anywhere small soon. I have a feeling that IBM may start pushing PCs out of the way by...; Tags: Processors, IBM POWER5, Ultra IV, Montecito, Intel Corp., IBM POWER5+, Cell, Intel x86, Intel Itanium, Sun Sparc; Discussion threads 2006-07-18
DB2 Enterprise Server Performance With POWER5+ and AIX 5L Multipage Support: This paper explains the IBM DB2, Version 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows exploitation of multiple page sizes and also shares some performance results, as measured internally on IBM POWER5+ processor-based systems running the IBM AIX 5L operating system. With the introduction of the POWER5+ processor architecture, the AIX 5L...; Tags: Performance, IBM AIX, IBM POWER5+, IBM AIX 5L, IBM DB2, IBM Corp., Operating Systems, UNIX, Databases, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management; White papers 2006-05-01
IBM System p5 Quad-Core Module Based on POWER5+ Technology: Technical Overview and Introduction: The Quad-Core Module QCM is based on the well-known POWER5 Dual-Core Module DCM technology. The dual core POWER5 chip and the dual core POWER5+ chip are packaged with the L3 cache chip into a cost-effective DCM package. The QCM is a package that allows entry or midrange IBM System p5...; Tags: Quad-core, IBM POWER5+, IBM POWER5, IBM Corp., Chip, QCM, Processors, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Hardware, Components, Networking; White papers 2006-03-09

IBM System p5 575 8-Core 2.2 GHz, 16-Core 1.9 GHz Ultra-Dense, Modular Cluster Nodes for High Performance Computing: IBM System p5 575 now applies IBM POWER5+ chip technology in a cluster building block approach to help meet the requirements of high-performance technical and commercial computing. With the performance advantages provided by the powerful POWER5+ processors and their associated system architecture, a fast system bus, high memory bandwidth and...; Tags: High-performance Computing, High-performance, IBM POWER5+, IBM Corp., Leadership, Management; White papers 2006-02-14
Guide to Multiple Page Size Support on AIX 5L Version 5.3: The POWER5+ processor and AIX 5L Version 5.3 with the 5300-04 Recommended Maintenance Package introduce support for two new virtual memory page sizes - 64KB and 16GB. Using larger virtual memory page sizes for an application's memory can significantly improve an application's performance and throughput due to hardware efficiencies associated...; Tags: IBM AIX, Memory, IBM POWER5+, IBM AIX 5L, Operating Systems, UNIX, Software; White papers 2006-02-01
i2 Supply Chain Planner V6.2 on IBM System p5: Scalability and Performance Benchmark on the p5-570+ 8-Way With POWER5+ Processors: This white paper explores the advantages of deploying to the IBM System p5 570+, built on the next generation IBM POWER5+ technology, for i2 Technologies Supply Chain Planner SCP implementations. This paper conclusively shows that the p5-570+ provides superior availability, performance, and scalability for SCP solutions. Test results demonstrate that...; Tags: Supply Chain, Processor, Performance, I2 Technologies Inc., Scalability, IBM POWER5+, IBM Corp., Supply Chain Management (SCM), Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management; White papers 2006-02-01
Intel to roll out new Itanium chips: Intel to roll out new Itanium chipsA billion dollar mistake...SOS, DD from InHell !Yawn...I couldn't even get the HP-UX side of the house interested in this news.Supercomputer customers really want AlienwareAll this supercomputer stuff on Itanium is sooo boring yawn. I myself am shopping for a $2-3M supercomputer but...; Tags: Processors, Semiconductors, IBM POWER5+, tortoise, Itanium-2, chip, EPIC, Intel Itanium, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Montecito, dual-core; Discussion threads 2005-07-13

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From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeWhose employees?Having done my bit for peace and understanding on other Comments, I've arrived here for edification. (My time on ZDNet is of course billed to charity, volunteer work in the community.)Because of the IBM Global Services connection, might be worthwhile...; Tags: Mainframes, Servers, IBM Corp., IBM mainframe, data-processing, mainframe; Discussion threads 2008-07-25
EIC podcast: Microsoft's analyst meeting; Icahn's deal; Facebook: On this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan is back and we talk about Microsoft's analyst meeting, Kevin Johnson's departure from the software giant, Carl Icahn's deal with Yahoo and Facebook. The big news this week was Microsoft's financial meeting (see Mary Jo Foley and Ina Fried's coverage)...; Tags: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Dan, Podcasts, Portals, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity: Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarityBingo! ntnt"insanely profitable"Yes, IBM retained those parts of its business in which it was possible to obtain a huge markup and not worry as much about performance compared to alternatives.Microsoft already has part of that approach, as witness the markup on software. ...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-07-25
Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity: Microsoft's financial analyst meeting was a tale of a technology conglomerate: You heard a lot about search, a decent bit about the enterprise and all sorts of projects in between. But amid all the coverage--see Mary Jo's laundry list of stories--I can't help but wonder if Microsoft's...; Tags: Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Enterprise, IBM Corp., Game Players, Virtualization, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Management, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25
News to know: 'Spam king' dead; Microsoft's cloud; Dell;: Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Escapee 'Spam King' dead in apparent murder-suicide CBS Denver Video: 'Spam King' Inmate Dies Along With Wife, Daughter Mary Jo Foley: Ozzie foreshadows 'Zurich,' Microsoft's elastic cloud Microsoft to get more 'Apple-like' in PC,...; Tags: Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-25
From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: This is a purely text based tour of a data processing center - note the acronyms used to distance staff from users and the heavy reliance on secrecy and sharp job boundaries. by Paul Murphy; Tags: IBM Mainframe, Data Center, Data-processing, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Data Centers, Servers, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-07-25
Dell opts for performance with R5400 data center-hosted desktop: Dell unveiled its data center-hosted desktop product line on Tuesday. Unlike rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Dell didn't build its solution on blade servers but instead opted for a high performance system using a 2U box called the Dell Precision R5400 Rack Workstation. "By not putting the solution...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Performance, R5400, Workstations, Desktops, Servers, Hardware, Jason Hiner; Blog posts 2008-07-24
We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!: We wanna be more like Apple - Microsoft and Ubuntu get ready to fire up the photocopiers!Linux has no marketing.Market share is directly related to marketing. When is the last time anyone saw a Linux commercial?Isn't that the point?You say that Canonical needs to listen more to the "customers" but...; Tags: Copiers, Operating systems, Desktops, Notebooks, Market-Share, Apple Inc., Ubuntu, wanna-be, Microsoft Corp., photocopier, Linux; Discussion threads 2008-07-24
2016: "You're watching the Linux Channel.": July 24th, 2016. Josef Konsumer, a home-based employee and portfolio manager for ICBC/CiticorpChase, a Chinese-owned multinational investment bank, wakes up to hear his alarm clock go off at 8am, and gets out of bed, his 47-year old body aching from an aggressive personal trainer session from the...; Tags: PC, Linux, Desktops, Microsoft Windows, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Storage, Data Management, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-07-24
Parallels releases Parallels Server for Mac: I almost missed Parallels' announcement of Parallels Server for Mac. I didn't speak with company representatives. All I saw was a press release. It was nearly lost in a huge pile of other mail in my inbox. Although there are several virtual machine software products that support...; Tags: Apple Macintosh, Operating System, Virtual Machine, Parallels Server, Parallels Management Console, Toolset, Desktops, Apple Mac OS, Desktop Virtualization, Operating Systems, Servers, Hardware, Software, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-07-24
DTrace and the Linux bunker mentality: DTrace and the Linux bunker mentalityBecause it is the Linux way Paul1) Take something good and copy it badly.2) Never, ever listen to anyone offering advice regarding usability [i]"Linux ain't no Fisher Price OS"[/i] etc.3) Spend more time arguing on the mailing lists, than actually developing and bug-testing.RE: DTrace and...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, DTrace, SCO Group Inc., Linux; Discussion threads 2008-07-24