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Title: IBM Deals a Pair of Powerhouses

Author: Zeichick, Alan Article Type: Review
Source: InfoWorld, v27 n27 p16(2) Publication Date: Jul 4, 2005
  ISSN: 0199-6649
  Illustrations: Charts
URL of Publication: http://www.infoworld.com

IBM eServer OpenPower 710 and IBM eServer p5 510 are high-end processors that have compact design. The two boxes are identical, and the only perceptible difference is a firmware limit on one of them that stops it from running any operating system (OS) except Linux. Testers could not find any differences between the two 2U (3.5 inch) dual Power5 servers, except that the OpenPower 710 ran SuSE Linux 7.0 and the p5 510 ran AIX 5L. The latter is IBM's version of AT&T Linux. An IBM engineering explains that marketing materials describing the devices as tuned for Linux indicate that they are the same boxes coming down the assembly line. The RISK Power5 processor in 710 and the p5 510 is an extremely fast iteration of the Power5 floating point system and runs at 1.65GHz. The chip has dual cores, allowing the two processor servers to run four threads in hardware concurrently. LPARS hardware-based partitioning permits one computer to behave as it many separate computers. The IBM eServer OpenPower 710 is more aggressively priced than the p5 510.

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Companies:
IBM Corp

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IBM eServer Open Power 710 IBM eServer p5 510
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