New IBM eServer Zooms to Internet Speed Record; pSeries 680 with Silicon-on-Insulator Chips is World's Fastest Web Server.Business and Technology Editors 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 announced that its 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. (1) pSeries 680, powered by Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI (Silicon On Insulator) A chip architecture that increases transistor switching speed by reducing capacitance (build-up of electrical charges in the transistor's elements), and thus reducing the discharge time. The power requirement is also reduced in some designs. ) microprocessors, has shattered the world's record for Internet speed performance. In independent testing on the SPECweb99 benchmark, a 12-way pSeries 680 outperformed Compaq and Hewlett-Packard to become the fastest Web server ever. The pSeries 680 12-way system running Zeus 3.3.6 Web server software supported 7,288 simultaneous connections, delivering performance over four times faster than Compaq and Hewlett-Packard UNIX systems. Designed to replicate real-world Web server performance, SPECweb99 simulates a server that supports multiple Web home pages with rotating advertisements, customized page creation, user registration and other dynamic operations. "Serious e-businesses require affordable high-performance servers that don't run out of gas when Web growth accelerates," said Mike Kerr, vice president, IBM Web Servers. "The IBM eServer p680 delivers unprecedented speed for conducting business on the Web and can rapidly scale with the growth of a customer's business. It is the ultimate Web Server for the next generation of the Internet." The pSeries 680 draws its considerable strength from copper-based microprocessors featuring Silicon-on-Insulator technology. SOI pushes chip performance at least a year ahead of the competition by using silicon technology to boost processor speed up to 30 percent over conventional bulk silicon technology. For more information on the SPECweb99 benchmark, visit http://www.spec.org/osg/web99/results/. For more information about Zeus, visit http://www.zeus.com. About the IBM eServer pSeries 680 The IBM eServer p680 is IBM's most powerful 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). symmetric multiprocessor symmetric multiprocessor - symmetric multiprocessing system. It excels at many diverse e-business applications, including Web serving and hosting, mission-critical Enterprise Resource Planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. , Supply Chain Management, transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. and Business Intelligence. The p680 builds on the award-winning design of its companion, the IBM RS/6000 (R) Model S80, increasing the clock speed to 600 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. and memory to 96GB. The server is powered by advanced IBM Silicon-on-Insulator microprocessors and is available with new features including Capacity Upgrade on Demand to enable businesses to cost effectively keep pace with rapid growth. For more information about IBM eServers, visit http://www.ibm.com/eserver. IBM, e-business logo, RS/6000, pSeries, and AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other company, product or service names mentioned herein may be trademarks or service marks of others. (1) The IBM eServer brand consists of the established IBM e-business logo with the descriptive term "server" following it. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Limited. . |
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