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IBM unleashes eServer p5 with 1.9 GHz POWER5

Very impressive, seems like the improved caches paid off big for IBM.
The TPC results are equally impressive, a 16-way p5 570 managed to claim the #3 spot in the TPC-C noncluster list.
Will be interesting to see what results their 32 and 64 way systems will get.
 
I know that these are hardly desktop chips, but I've been following the progress/news of Power5 for a while. I'm quite curious about the "virtual partitioning" features, and wonder how those compare to Intel's upcoming "vanderbuilt" or whatever they are calling their virtual-partitioning technology. I would love to run multiple PC OSes simultaniously, on the same hardware. (Yeah, maybe I'm nuts for wanting that, but I like to play with technology and push it to extremes.) I had some ideas myself, when Intel announced their EFI BIOS initiative for PCs, on how existing PC hardware could actual task-switch between virtual partitions, using SMI mode, between multiple running "live" OSes, almost like Desqview/386. (I have an x86 assembly-language programming background, so I could see how that might be possible to implement. I really hope someone does.)
 
IBM's been doing things like virtual partitioning for a while. Sun started doing things like that not too long ago (1 machine, up to 3 different "domains").
 
Whoa....My head feels like exploding from thinking of running 2 OSes at once. All I can think is, why? Want to be playing a game in Windows XP while you're surfing the net...in Red Hat Linux?
 
Originally posted by: Sideswipe001
Whoa....My head feels like exploding from thinking of running 2 OSes at once. All I can think is, why? Want to be playing a game in Windows XP while you're surfing the net...in Red Hat Linux?
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Developing something under Windows and testing it under Linux/BSD/Solaris-x86 would be one use.
For a server, there are lots and lots of uses.
 
Originally posted by: Sunner
Originally posted by: Sideswipe001
Whoa....My head feels like exploding from thinking of running 2 OSes at once. All I can think is, why? Want to be playing a game in Windows XP while you're surfing the net...in Red Hat Linux?
Click to expand...

Developing something under Windows and testing it under Linux/BSD/Solaris-x86 would be one use.
For a server, there are lots and lots of uses.
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Server use especally. I can take our 5 seperate small linux boxes and consolidate them onto one machine. That 4 less pieces of hardware I have to worry about now.
The cost savings in a huge environment with thousands of servers would be quite a bit.
 
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