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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
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., Virtualization, UNIX, Operating Systems, Hardware, Software; 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, Storage Management, Utility Computing, 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
IBM introduces Power6 chip: IBM introduces Power6 chipInteresting - are they lower voltage?For the last many years, companies have been lowering the voltage that the CPUs use. It has gone down from 5 to 4 to 1 volt. The maximum that you could go down would be .71 volt as .7 volt is needed...; Tags: Semiconductors, chip, IBM Corp., IBM POWER6, volt, transistor; Discussion threads 2007-05-21
IBM Power6 goes fast on less gas: IBM Power6 goes fast on less gasDon't believe IBM's Power marketing unless they can prove it!IBM Power6 @ 4.7GHz is a power hog!Folks-I keep reading that Power6 will be lower power consumption than Power5. This is probably true if comparing CPU's at same GHz (its a die shrink to 65nm...; Tags: Processors, IBM Corp., IBM POWER6; Discussion threads 2007-05-21
IBM System p 570 2007 Benchmark Results for Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Global Payroll (France) 8.9: With the introduction of the IBM System p5 570 using the POWER6 processor technology comes the potential for increased performance for all enterprise applications. The p570, based on innovative POWER6 processor technology, opens new horizons in computing technology for UNIX and Linux clients. This paper provides an overview of the...; Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., IBM POWER6, Payroll, IBM Corp., Operational Accounting, Linux, Finance, Operating Systems, Software; White papers 2007-03-01
IBM Power6 goes fast on less gas: Who says clock speed doesn’t matter anymore? IBM has been saying for years, now, that clock speed—a given chip’s gigahertz rating—is no longer the main driver of chip performance. Other chipmakers are on the same page. Advanced Micro Devices, for its part, has been emphasizing performance per watt or...; Tags: Uncategorized; Blog posts 2007-02-13