IBM rebuilds Unix servers with Power5 chip

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Just lamenting

[Apparently you don't know chip architecture that well. IBM's POWER 5 and POWER 5+ are used for far more than just intensive graphics processing.]

They don't do graphics mr achitecture expert. They are the latest top of the line PPC server chip. You can do all sorts of fancy things like putting the chip in hibernation mode and "slicing" up the chip into "fractional CPUs" (10 separate servers per chip). I just spent over 9 months on a new P595 deployment - what's in YOUR wallet?

[Plus, you can't run OS slices on the XBox 360 Chip. Only one system.]

Depends on the OS. The Xbox 360 has 3 cores - so you could AT LEAST run 3 "slices" concurrently. Not sure if Windoze could do that . . .

[a POWER 5 can run up to 10 separate servers per chip. Not an easy task and something that your puny intel chips could even dream of handling.]

Since these new capabilities are designed into the chip, yes I agree that InHell (x86) chips cannot do this. The Itanic MIGHT have this capability in the future.

I personally think the P595 is very cool! A tad on the PRICEY side though . . .

Posted by: Roger Ramjet   Posted on: 10/04/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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