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P570 vs T5220

As part of JesperFrimann's challenge with respect to the options available to a company with two aging p690s running Sybase, he suggested that: It's 256 threads per box on the T5440 versus 16 on the p550, and furthermore the power 550 supports shared pool virtualization.. so it...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM POWER6, IBM Corp., J2Ee, Processors, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Software, Programming Languages, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2009-03-12

Blackbox, SWaP, and the z10

During last week's discussion of IBM's z10 numbers, one contributor claimed that it is both space and power efficient - so I suggested he compare the z10's numbers to those for Sun's project blackbox. Since I doubt he bothered, I've done it for all of us -and the results are...

Tags: Paul Murphy, Data Center, Network, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM POWER6, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Storage, Servers, Processors, Networking, Hardware, Data Management, Semiconductors, Components

Blog posts 2008-11-06

IBM EnergyScale for POWER6 Processor-Based Systems

Energy costs consuming your data center budget? Discover how to control heating, cooling, and power consumption with IBM EnergyScale technology. This IBM technical paper explains how each EnergyScale tool works within your IBM POWER6 System and describes how the IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager provides easy energy monitoring.

Tags: Processor, IBM POWER6, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Productivity, Storage, Hardware, Data Management

White papers 2008-04-01

Lawson M3 7.1 on IBM Power Hardware and IBM i 6.1 Operating System

This paper describes testing that was done with M3 7.1 on the latest IBM Power hardware and the IBM i 6.1 operating system. The paper highlights three benefits of this latest technology. First it shows how runtime performance on i V6.1 has improved over i V5.4. Second it shows how...

Tags: Operating System, IBM POWER6, Lawson Software Inc., Hardware, IBM Corp., Performance Management, Benefits, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2008-03-01

HMC Connectivity Security for IBM POWER5 and POWER6 Processor-Based Systems

This paper describes data that is exchanged between the Hardware Management Console HMC and the IBM Service Delivery Center SDC and the methods and protocols for this exchange. This includes the configuration of "Call Home" Electronic Service Agent on the HMC for automatic hardware error reporting. All the functionality that...

Tags: Security, Processor, IBM POWER6, Hardware, IBM POWER5, IBM Corp.

White papers 2008-02-25

An Assessment of Leadership Performance With POWER6 Processors and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1

Compute-intensive performance is increasingly required for today's high-performance environments. The IBM System p 570 with POWER6 processors provides leadership performance and demonstrates excellent scalability moving from one node to four nodes in this environment while providing linear SMP Symmetric Multiprocessing scaling and growth for workloads similar to the metrics used...

Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Leadership, Red Hat Inc., IBM POWER6, IBM Corp., Compute-intensive Performance, Processors, Open Source, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2008-01-31

IBM System p Virtualization Technologies - Workload Partitions (WPARs) and Shared Processor LPARs

The paper describes related capabilities of System p Advanced POWER Virtualization APV and AIX with respect to resource virtualization and mobility. It focuses on the Shared Processor LPAR SPLPAR feature of POWER5 and POWER6 based System p servers and Workload Partitions WPAR introduced with AIX Version 6.1. Both cover similar...

Tags: Processor, IBM AIX, IBM POWER6, IBM Corp., UNIX, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

White papers 2007-12-01

NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputer

NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputerSo that's who's keeping SGI aliveGranted, I know that the Itanium 2 scales well, but so does the POWER6. In fact, if the POWER6 scales as well as it should, they would require half of the cores that the Itanium 2 would need....

Tags: Processors, Operating systems, Intel Itanium, IBM POWER6, Intel Itanium 2, Silicon Graphics Inc., HPC Space, NASA, supercomputer, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-11-15

IBM's liquid cooled System p 575 Power6 supercomputer

IBM's liquid cooled System p 575 Power6 supercomputerIt needs some Cold CathodesSorry, but the first thing I thought of was modding this beast.Something like the following:http://www.schrankmonster.de/content/binary/sun_leuchtet_thumb.jpgNow that's a super supercomputer.Don't forget historyI remember that there was a problem with some water cooled systems in years gone by. If the...

Tags: supercomputer, heat-pipe, IBM POWER6, liquid, leak, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-11-13

IBM's liquid cooled System p 575 Power6 supercomputer

At the SC07 supercomputing conference image gallery in Reno Nevada, IBM previewed the liquid cooled 32-core 4.7 GHz System p 575 Power6 supercomputer last night at the opening gala.  What sets this server apart is that it actually returns to a water cooling system which were common in older mainframes but shunned...

Tags: Supercomputer, IBM POWER6, Server, IBM Corp., Servers, Hardware, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-11-13

System Power Management Support in the IBM POWER6 Microprocessor

The IBM POWER6 microprocessor chip supports advanced, dynamic power management solutions for managing not just the chip but the entire server. The design facilitates a programmable power management solution for greater flexibility and integration into system- and data-center-wide management solutions. The design of the POWER6 microprocessor provides real-time access to...

Tags: Power Management, IBM POWER6, Microprocessor, IBM Corp.

White papers 2007-11-01

IBM POWER6 Microprocessor Physical Design and Design Methodology

The IBM POWER6e microprocessor is a 790 million-transistor chip that runs at a clock frequency of greater than 4 GHz. The complexity and size of the POWER6 microprocessor, together with its high operating frequency, present a number of significant challenges. This paper describes the physical design and design methodology of...

Tags: IBM POWER6, Microprocessor, IBM Corp., Semiconductors, Data Management, Processors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2007-11-01

A POWER6 Virtualization Performance Study Using Integrated Virtual Ethernet

Data latency has long been a top concern for corporations where less than a millisecond can determine whether revenue is lost or made. The introduction of the IBM POWER6 processor-based server brought to market several advances in server design, performance, and function. One of these key enhancements is the capability...

Tags: Performance, IBM POWER6, Server, IBM Corp., Data Latency, Ethernet, Performance Management, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Network Technology, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Storage

White papers 2007-10-24

AIX vs. Solaris (4)

AIX vs. Solaris (4)Sun Ultra 24 WorkstationSun's first Intel based workstation with QUAD core starting at $995.http://www.sun.com/desktop/workstation/ultra24/index.xmlbetter than a PC - but still wrongAs a sysadmin I want my desktop to replicate the production system as closely as possible. i.e if I run on SPARC, I want a sparc desktop.That's...

Tags: Workstations, Network technology, Operating systems, UNIX, IBM AIX, X4500, Sun Microsystems Inc., T2, workstation, Sun Solaris, IBM POWER6, storage

Discussion threads 2007-10-23

Solaris vs AIX: Price/performance

IBM's newest AIX products feature the Power6, Sun's the UltraSPARC T2. It probably makes sense, therefore, to base a data center hardware cost comparison as much as possible on these two technologies. Comparable scaling is a key issue, but there's enough consistency about the benchmark results both...

Tags: T2, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM AIX, IBM POWER6, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Network Technology, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Networking, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-10-23

Integrated Virtual Ethernet Adapter: Technical Overview and Introduction

The introduction of the POWER6 processor-based servers brought to market several advances in server design, performance, and function. One of these enhancements is the capability to virtualize Ethernet within a server. The feature that provides this function is named Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter IVE. IVE is the integration of several...

Tags: Adapter, IBM POWER6, IVE, Ethernet, Virtualization, Network Technology, Networking, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2007-10-01

SAS 9.1.3 SP4 on IBM System p 570 POWER6 Processor-Based Server

IBM System p 570 is powered by the 64-bit, 4.7 GHz, IBM POWER6 processors. The POWER6 processor is the next generation of the IBM POWER5 family of microprocessors. The IBM System p 570 server with IBM AIX Version 5.3 operating system demonstrated impressive performance, scalability and reliability when running the...

Tags: IBM POWER6, SAS Institute, Server, IBM Corp., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components

White papers 2007-09-01

Improved Price/Performance for Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne on System I

The performance measurements documented in this paper again demonstrate the scalability and performance of JD Edwards EnterpriseOne on System i which showed improved performance with the new POWER6 processor technology. These measurements also show that the Virtual 3 Tier configuration provides very good performance and should be considered in conjunction...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, J.D. Edwards & Co., IBM POWER6, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2007-08-01

Sell magic

Every once in a while I get credible seeming "deepthroat" e-mail -unfortunately these aren't always completely right, as witness this report last January from an Apple insider saying that the iPhone's application processor would be a PPC enabled core made by Samsung. Although he may have been completely right...

Tags: Sun, Hardware, Enterprise Policy

Blog posts 2007-07-18

Java Tuning for Performance and IBM POWER6 Support

This paper describes suggested practices for and performance results of using IBM Software Development Kit SDK for Java on systems powered by the new IBM POWER6 processor. It discusses memory-related performance and tuning, providing suggestions for tuning the Java heap and descriptions of various garbage collector configurations. It also describes...

Tags: Performance, IBM POWER6, Hardware, IBM Corp., Programming Languages, Performance Management, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management

White papers 2007-06-06