IBM Brings 5GHz Chip to its Top-selling Unix Server
The Power 570 is available now with a 5GHz Power6 processor. IBM has also doubled the maximum density for the Power 570. The nodes can be stacked as many as four high for a total of 32 4.2GHz processors in a single box.The enhancements boost the performance that can be gotten from each square foot of server space and from each watt of power, IBM is also testing other enhancements, its power VM software which incorporates shared virtual memory between partitions, and its Active Energy manager that puts the cap on the energy used between a pool of servers.
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