IBM delivers memory-saving servers.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) has introduced the first Intel[R]-based servers to make use of technology that can double memory and increase performance in memory-constrained environments. The new 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. x330 marks the debut of Memory eXpansion Technology (MXT (Memory eXpansion Technology) A memory expansion technique introduced by IBM in 2002 for its Intel-based xSeries servers. Using a hardware compression algorithm, MXT doubles the amount of main memory in the computer. It is also available for licensing to other vendors. ) that IBM Research IBM Research, a division of IBM, is a research and advanced development organization and currently consists of eight locations throughout the world and hundreds of projects. first announced in mid-2000. MXT encodes data so that it can be stored using half the space it would otherwise need. It also incorporates a new, shared cache that can handle data and instructions on a memory controller chip. Frequently accessed data are automatically stored close to a computer's microprocessors for faster retrieval. With MXT, organizations can deploy fewer servers and save significantly in total costs, since memory comprises 40 percent to 70 percent of the cost of most NT-based server configurations. Enterprises that will benefit most from using MXT are those that run memory-intensive operations such as Web serving, caching, firewall and load balancing. |
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