IBM Introduces World's Fastest Midrange Server; New Eight-way IBM eServer Outperforms Twelve-way Sun UltraSparcIII System; Costs 33% Less.Business Editors ARMONK, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 10, 2001 IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) today introduced the world's most powerful midrange server, an IBM eServer This article is about the IBM family of computer servers. For the open access electronic text archive, see EServer.org. IBM eServer was a family of computer servers from IBM Corporation. (1) UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (2) system that outperforms a much larger machine from Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. while costing a third less(3). The IBM eServer provides advantages in power, scalability and reliability that demonstrate the superiority of IBM's existing microprocessors over Sun's brand-new UltraSparcIII technology. The industry's best-performing eight-way server See 8-way. for Web serving and Java applications, the system is well-suited for service providers as well as the data centers of large corporations and other demanding e-business environments. The rack-mounted IBM eServer pSeries server provides the same advanced technology that has made IBM the leading vendor in the high end of the UNIX market. Powered by 750 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. RS64 IV processors featuring IBM's copper and silicon-on-insulator technologies, the system is also bolstered with self-managing and self-healing technologies inherited from IBM's larger UNIX and mainframe systems. "The IBM eServer system offers customers far superior performance at a better price," said Val Rahmani, vice president, marketing operations, IBM Web Servers unit. "We've packed a data center's worth of reliability, performance, and availability into the server and made it an ideal platform for the most demanding applications." Benchmark Champion In the important java benchmark, IBM eServer p660 Model 6M1, equipped with eight processors, beat every competing system under 24 processors. The leading benchmark results achieved when the IBM eServer is stacked up against the competition are as follows: Java performance This article is a general presentation of the Java Platform performance. For criticisms about Java performance, and more generally about the Java language, see Criticism of Java. (SPECjbb2000 benchmark)(4) -- Eight-way IBM p660 6M1 handles 15% more operations/second than Sun's more expensive twelve-way UltraSparcIII-based Sun Fire 6800, and 80 percent more operations/second than an eight-way HP 9000 N4000 Web serving (SPECweb99 benchmark) (5) -- The IBM p660 6M1 is the world's fastest eight-way Web-server, offering 93% of the performance of Sun's twelve-way UltraSparcIII-based Sun Fire 4810 The server's Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD) capabilities -- available for the first time in an IBM UNIX midrange server -- helps customers meet unexpected growth in their businesses. Customers can quickly activate additional processors with a single command in IBM's AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. . A simple "pay as you go" configuration option, IBM Capacity Upgrade on Demand is an alternative to competitors' expensive, complex offerings. Self-Managing Technologies IBM includes self-healing and self-managing technologies in the IBM eServer p660 Model 6M1 that are more commonly seen in larger, more complex systems. The IBM eServer system's built-in service processor is designed to monitor system operation and take preventive or corrective action A corrective action is a change implemented to address a weakness identified in a management system. Normally corrective actions are instigated in response to a customer complaint, abnormal levels if internal nonconformity, nonconformities identified during an internal audit or . Dynamic Processor Deallocation, working with AIX, can automatically reassign tasks from a potentially failing processor so applications continue to run. The system also features Chipkill(TM) technology derived from IBM's mainframes. Chipkill is designed to virtually eliminate memory-based system failures, one of the most frequent causes of server downtime. Chipkill is estimated to be 100 times more effective than the Error Checking and Correction (ECC (1) (Error-Correcting Code) A type of memory that corrects errors on the fly. See ECC memory. (2) (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) A public key cryptography method that provides fast decryption and digital signature processing. ) technology implemented by most server vendors. If a memory error does occur, Chipkill is designed to automatically and gracefully take the inoperative Void; not active; ineffectual. The term inoperative is commonly used to indicate that some force, such as a statute or contract, is no longer in effect and legally binding upon the persons who were to be, or had been, affected by it. memory chip off-line while the server keeps running. The IBM eServer system's rugged design meets the rigid Network Equipment Building System NEBS Level 3 Standards -- the most stringent level of disaster resistant certification in the telecommunications industry. The server is able to stand up to harsh environments including earthquakes, high temperatures and high humidity, making it an excellent choice for telecommunications central office operations. The IBM eServer p660 runs IBM's AIX 5L operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . AIX 5L offers the scalability, performance, reliability and security needed to accommodate demanding e-business workloads. AIX features a strong affinity with Linux allowing pSeries customers to build and run many popular Linux applications on AIX. For more information about the IBM eServer line, visit http://www.ibm.com/eserver. About IBM IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. Drawing on resources from across IBM and key Business Partners, IBM offers a wide range of services, solutions and technologies that enable customers, large and small, to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. For more information about IBM, visit http://www.ibm.com. (1) The IBM eServer brand consists of the established IBM e-business logo with the following descriptive term "server" following it. IBM, the e-business logo, AIX, and pSeries are trademarks of IBM Corporation in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and/or other countries. (2) UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company, Limited. Java is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems. SPECjbb is a trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Performance evaluation The assessment of a manager's results, which involves, first, determining whether the money manager added value by outperforming the established benchmark (performance measurement) and, second, determining how the money manager achieved the calculated return Corp.(SPEC). SPECweb99 is a trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) (3) Configurations priced based on March 13, 2001 Sun-Fire 6800 SPECjbb2000 full disclosure and July 29, 2001 IBM eServer pSeries 660 Model 6M1 full disclosure posted at http://www.spec.org. Prices obtained from DH Brown UNIX Server A medium to large-scale computer system in a network that runs under Unix. Unix servers are widely used as application servers and database servers and are available from a variety of vendors, including Sun, IBM, HP and others. Pricing Configuration Monitor on September 7, 2001. (4) According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. published SPECjbb2000 benchmark results. 8-way, IBM eServer p660 6M1 performed 72,437 operations per second, compared with 62,463 operations per second for the 12-way, Sun Fire 6800 and 40,192 operations per second for the 8-way, HP N4000. For complete results visit SPEC at http://www.spec.org (5)According to published SPECweb99 benchmark results. 8-way, IBM eServer p660 6M1 performed 8,145 simultaneous connections compared with 8,739 for the 12-way, Sun Fire 4810 For complete results visit SPEC at http://www.spec.org This document was created on September 7, 2001. The data contained herein was accurate at the time of creation. IBM recognizes that newer data may be published after this date that would cause this data to become inaccurate. |
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