http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/ Engadget Comments for IBM specs out Power7 systems, starts shipping them to your local server farm http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/
*rolls eyes* [/sarcasm]]]>Feb 12th 2010 9:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/
In all seriousness though this thing is pretty impressive, 8Mb of cache per core ? :)

Though, something tells me I wouldn't be comfortable handling a $30k + chip.]]>Feb 12th 2010 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/
lol yes yes, I'm aware, I'm just fueling the troll fire for all the people who only care if something will "run Crysis"

IT WAS FUNNY TO MEEEEE :(]]>Feb 12th 2010 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/
Clearly you have missed the [/sarcasm] portion of my post.]]>Feb 12th 2010 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/I thought that was for the whole machine $30k+]]>Feb 12th 2010 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/
Crysis has been rumored to come to the Sony PS3 gaming device. With it's Cell Processor, it also has 8 cores (jointly developed by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba); but more attuned to gaming and R&D. So there you go, I just saved you $33,700, unless you are running a Server Farm!]]>Feb 12th 2010 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 12:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/
*jaw DROPS*]]>Feb 12th 2010 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/
POWER is not the same as PPC. PPC is a subset of the POWER architecture without quite a few high-end extensions.]]>Feb 12th 2010 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/
E.g. we have several IBM's AIX servers running on the chip similar to those found in later PowerMacs. Yet, they are labeled everywhere as "POWER" not "PowerPC."]]>Feb 12th 2010 12:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 9:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 1:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/
(I agree they didn't have a competitive offer, but the selection for all game consoles does tell you the chips aren't absolute crap.)]]>Feb 12th 2010 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/
Yeah i know! Too bad i'm on a linux machine....
http://xkcd.com/619/]]>Feb 12th 2010 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/
In my experience the time when data warehousing needed 32 processor server are gone, the processors are fast enough and can easily scale to grids, now it's mostly about I/O in data warehousing and how to minimize it. That's why Oracle came with their Exadata and database aware linux OS.
]]>Feb 12th 2010 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/
Lots of proprietary business apps are written in something like Java and require quite amount of CPU/RAM resources to run. Such applications are what the *nix servers used mostly for.

IBM would likely use the servers together with the custom server apps (e.g. Lotus Domino) their global services unit is used to sell around the world.]]>Feb 12th 2010 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/
Or like... y'know, save anything.]]>Feb 12th 2010 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Yes. Because this is for server clusters, not just desktop computers.]]>Feb 12th 2010 10:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/
Yes

Having it on one chip would be a thousand times faster and more powerful.

Plus this is advancement in technology, get over it.]]>Feb 12th 2010 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/
I wonder though, what is the cost of the power relative to the other costs of running these systems, and how many workloads really need that kind of bandwidth between nodes. I have little to no actual experience with parallel programming, but I would think that most of the workloads these chips will be used for could save money with a cluster and a rethinking of the project distribution. I very well could be wrong.]]>Feb 12th 2010 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Cheaper than hardware that can be aggregated together? no. Cheaper than LICENSING all the cores in those servers with enterprise class cluster OS and software, building an infiniband infrastructure, and having code that's AIX cluster aware? NO, not even close. not to mention the differences in power draw, cooling, and rack space costs...

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Plus, this chassis is expandible, by interlinking with up to 3 others, plus memory and IO drawers to run a dozen cards and up to 128 total RAM slots. Oh, and you can add CPUs and RAM while it's RUNNING

These things are insane.

We're looking at a pair of 770s, 8x8 processors each, with 512GB of RAM each, and some interconnects, and we'll be consolidating every single AIX server we have today (about 30 of them) across VIO (Think VMWare with better hardware integration including being able to dedicate PCI cards to virtual machines as if they were installed bare metal), and we'll have about 40% of it's capacity to spare.


]]>Feb 12th 2010 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Depends on the type of work being done. Generally when it comes to high end computing hardware is almost always cheaper than man power. Say you have to bring in some clustering gurus, some sys admins to take care of the server farm, etc. You're not saving any money in most cases. ]]>Feb 12th 2010 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/12/ibm-specs-out-power7-systems-starts-shipping-them-to-your-local/Feb 12th 2010 10:31AM