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IBM Launches p690

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the things-to-blow-the-budget-on dept.

edyavno writes: "IBM just announced the launch of their new high-end Unix server p690. It's based on its new Power 4 chip, and is in the same category as just announced Sun's SunFire 15K. It also includes some mainframe level features and can be used either as a single large server or divided into up to 16 "virtual" servers, running any combination of AIX 5L and Linux. Here's yahoo article, and here it is from IBM itself."

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  1. I want one by yaknad · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It sure got killer specs, I wonder how fast it could run distributed.net clients

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