POWER Processors, SMT and the True Origins of AI

Posted by michael on Tuesday November 23, 2004 @09:41AM from the intel-not-inside dept.

Crow writes "IBM developerWorks has posted an interview with John McCalpin, one of the guys who works on the POWER line of processors. He discusses work on POWER5 (and how the design process works at IBM -- he's also involved in work on the POWER7) and defends the decision that IBM doesn't hand-tune their ICs (as has often been criticized on Ars Technica. Also covers some of the features in the POWER processors, like SMT, the Hypervisor and virtualization -- even addresses the question of whether AIX was designed by space aliens or not. The POWER5 just broke the 3 million transactions per minute barrier on the TPC-C benchmark."

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Aliens, IBM, and AIX oh my! by infinite_improbabili · 2004-11-23 10:31 · Score: 5, Funny

dW: That is a shame. I have one more on the subject of OSes -- was AIX really designed by space aliens?
McCalpin: I hadn't heard that one. It feels like it was designed by, [not space aliens, but] in some part by people with mainframe backgrounds..."

Apparently the aliens have embedded mind control in AIX!
Re:O God by Anonymous Coward · 2004-11-23 11:44 · Score: 2, Funny

No, sometimes we call him the Bandwidth Bigot.
Re:O God by putaro · 2004-11-23 15:28 · Score: 3, Funny

I used to have cards that read "Speaker to Disk Drives" as my title when I was at Apple.