Harder, Better, Faster, Strong: IBM's Newest Multi-Core Power7
Harder, Better, Faster, Strong: IBM's Newest Multi-Core Power7
Posted 02/12/2010 at 6:36am
| by Paul Lilly
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IBM earlier this week lifted the wraps on its new Power7 systems designed for a range of applications, including smart electrical grids and real-time analytics for financial institutions, the company said.
The Power7-based servers have been optimized to chew through huge workloads of simultaneous transactions, data handling, analysis, and other related tasks. And according to IBM, customers can expect "dramatic improvements" in the price-to-performance ratios, as well as energy savings and server virtualization. More specifically, IBM claims its new systems can deliver four times the performance and four times the virtualization capability as its predecessor for the same price.
There are four new systems in all, including the IBM Power 750 Express for mid-market clients, IBM Power 755 with 32 Power7 cores, IBM Power 770 modular enterprise system with up to 64 Powe7 cores, and the IBM Power 780, "a new category of scalable, high-end servers, featuring an advanced modular design with up to 64 Power7 cores."
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imagonex
February 14, 2010 at 12:38am
I know this hardware is part of the Big Iron used in data-centers, however, would it be possible for MaximumPC to do a review of such hardware? We always hear about Intel this, Intel that and AMD this and that, etc.
And...it would also be interesting to see other motherboards such as dual and quad socket boards being reviewed besides the single socket boards.
Psst! I'm talking to you Tyan and Supermicro!
imagonex
February 14, 2010 at 12:48am
Power7 is really meant for server duty. In a server/virtualization/data-center scenarios an i7 CPU would not be able to keep up with Power7. The Intel i7 desktop chips are just that...meant for desktop environments and desktop software. I'm not sure how the Power7 would behave in a desktop environment with a desktop OS if one would be able to achieve such a complex feat. Power7, in UNIX environments, not on Windows.
Overall, the Power7 is one scary chip. There's a reason why IBM has such a presence in the land of the Big Iron.
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