IBM Unleashes the Ultimate Web Server; New IBM eServer Delivers Unprecedented Speed; Adds Mainframe Features.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SOMERS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2000 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 most powerful commercial server in history -- the 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. * pSeries 680** -- and announced it will ship the UNIX-based system to customers in volume beginning November 17th. Code-named "Turbo," the pSeries 680 has already captured eight major performance benchmark records using up to 24 copper microprocessors This is a list of microprocessors. Intel
Building on IBM's award-winning RS/6000 S (RISC System/6000) The earlier generation and name of IBM's pSeries and p5 families of computation-intensive (scientific) workstations and servers. Introduced in 1990, the RS/6000 evolved into the pSeries in 2000 and the p5 in 2004. 80 design, the p680 delivers superior performance with fewer processors than Sun and Hewlett-Packard systems, while also bringing new mainframe-inspired functionality to 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). customers. "IBM is far and away the leader in server technology that enables extraordinary e-business performance," said Rod Adkins, general manager, IBM Web Servers. "Once again IBM is delivering in Internet time In the early days of the public Internet, Internet time referred to the breakneck speed with which companies scrambled to gain traffic and market share on the Web. A new business could come and go within a matter of weeks. . Our new IBM eServer delivers a big leap in power and significant new functionality while our competitors are still pointing to products in 2001." -0-
IBM SUN/HP
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Web Serving Fastest Web server Sun has not
published
(1) SPECweb99
7,288 simultaneous HP - 1,750
connections simultaneous
connections
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Transaction Processing* Most powerful OLTP server Sun E10000 64-way
(OLTP) 156,873.03 tpmC
(1) TPC-C 220,807.27 tpmC @ $48.81 /tpmC
@$43.30 /tpmC
HP V2500 32-way
102,025.50 tpmC
@ $63.21 /tpmC
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Java Performance Top Java performance Sun results no
for UNIX longer available
(2) VolanoMark
133,251 messages per second HP has not
published
(1) SPECjbb2000 56,834 operations Sun has not
per second published
HP - 40,192 ops
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SAP performance Best SAP performance Sun has not
published
(1) SAP ATO (2-tier)
8,570 assembly orders HP - 2,260
per hour assembly orders
per hour
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Baan performance Best Baan performance Sun has not
(2) published
11,886 Baan Reference Users HP has not
(BRU's) published
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PeopleSoft performance Best PeopleSoft Performance Sun has not
(2) published
General Ledger 15,584,416 journal lines HP has not
per hour published
Payroll 533,546 transactions per hour
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(1) www.ideasinternational.com (10/16/2000)
(2) IBM News Releases (10/16/2000)
IBM Mainframe IBM mainframes, though perceived as synonymous with mainframe computers in general due to their marketshare, are now technically and specifically IBM's line of business computers that can all trace their design evolution to the IBM System/360. Technologies -- Capacity Upgrade on Demand -- IBM extends its industry-leading mainframe Capacity Upgrade on Demand (CUoD) offering to the p680 to help UNIX customers meet unexpected growth in their businesses. Customers can quickly activate additional processors with a single command in IBM's AIX. A simple "pay as you grow" configuration option, IBM Capacity Upgrade On Demand is an alternative to competitor's expensive, complex offerings. -- Built-in service processor -- the service processor monitors system. operations and takes preventative or corrective actions for quick problem resolution and high system availability. -- Dynamic CPU Deallocation -- Automatically deallocates resources if impending CPU failures are detected so applications keep running. Other Key Features of the pSeries 680 -- IBM's breakthrough Silicon-on-Insulator technology increases performance of copper-based processors up to 30 percent. IBM was the first chipmaker chip·mak·er n. A manufacturer of electronic and integrated circuit chips. to substitute copper for aluminum in chip wiring to boost performance and is now the first to perfect high-volume SOI manufacturing. -- Memory capacity is increased to 96 GB -- Allowing faster performance, increased scalability, faster access to large amounts of data and exploitation of 64-bit addressing - often used in large-scale database applications. "IBM's 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. platform is the best on the planet for companies like Cable & Wireless that need to run large-scale business intelligence applications," said, Bob Plamondyn, director of Global Service Delivery, Cable & Wireless. "IBM's UNIX server technology helps us keep up with our growing telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. and multimedia communications operations. We anticipate the new IBM eServer p680 will provide IT leaders with an unbeatable server platform for e-business." Blue Hammer: High Performance Clusters High performance cluster options are also available to p680 customers. Code-named "Blue Hammer," the world's most powerful UNIX cluster system dedicated to Web-based commerce allows customers to cluster up to 16 IBM eServer p680 systems scaling to 384 copper microprocessors from a single point-of-control. The "Blue Hammer" system ushers in a new era of manageability for commercial UNIX systems Noun 1. UNIX system - trademark for a powerful operating system UNIX, UNIX operating system operating system, OS - (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services using IBM's Parallel System Support Programs (PCP PCP abbr. 1. phencyclidine 2. primary care physician Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) ) -- the robust management software first developed for the IBM SP (IBM Scalable POWER) A family of massively parallel (MPP) computer systems from IBM based on its RS/6000 (pSeries) models that incorporate various POWER and PowerPC CPUs. First introduced in 1993, SP configurations support from two to 512 processors. supercomputers. The IBM eServer pSeries 680 starts at $420,000*** About IBM eServer IBM is the largest server company in the world. The p680 is the latest addition to IBM's eServer line, a new generation of servers introduced earlier this month that feature mainframe-class reliability and scalability, broad support of open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced , and capacity on demand for managing the unprecedented demands of e-business. *The IBM eServer brand consists of the established IBM e-business logo with the following descriptive term "server" following it. **The IBM e-business logo, xSeries, iSeries, pSeries and zSeries are all trademarks of IBM Corporation. All others are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. *** Prices are subject to change. Reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. Prices may vary For more information on Zeus Web server Zeus Web Server is a high-performance web server for Unix and Unix-like platforms. It is developed by Zeus Technology, a software company in Cambridge, England. The original authors and company founders were University of Cambridge graduates Damian Reeves and Adam Twiss. software, visit www.zeus.com |
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