IBM Sets SPECweb Record

the frogspotter writes "IBM has an article on their site talking about their new RS/6000 that can supposedly do 40,161 http ops./sec. as measured by SPECweb96. Jeez...that'd be 3469910400 http ops./day. " And it only took 12 (out of 24) processors (on an unreleased server) and a hacked kernel! It seems as if modifying the kernel for benchmarking is becoming quite a popular tactic these days...