Fushigi
Storage Is My Life
http://www.midrangeserver.com/tfh/tfh050304-story01.html or the official (and boring) IBM page: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/announce/
- Speed: 1.65GHz, dual-core
- SMT in each core (Symmetric Multi Threading; equivalent to Intel Hyper Threading)
- Cache: 64KB L1/core, 1.9MB shared L2, L3 controller that handles up to 36MB shared
Overall it looks to get better than twice the throughput of a POWER4 chip, which already spanked Itanic's butt.
And the new AS/400 is now called the eServer i5. It features things like:
- PCI-X (been using it for a couple of years now)
- 2GB (not Gb) interconnects between I/O frames
- 1-4 CPU cores per 4U chassis
- 64GB RAM per 4U chassis
- SMP overhead is low; a 4-way is 3.54 times as fast as a 1-way
- Stack up to 4 chassis to create a 16-way
- Runs native 64-bit i5/OS (OS/400), AIX, and Red Hat or Suse Linux
- Runs off-the shelf Windows on Xeon processor cards
- Dynamic partitioning with automaitc shuffling of resources from partition to partition based on rules. Up to 10 partitions per CPU core; 254 max/machine (when the big boxes get released later this year).
- Plans are for a 64-core box this fall. It'll support 1TB RAM.
Lots of new stuff in the OS that I can use for real-world admin tasks:
- System-level mirroring of disk pools across a WAN (makes disaster recovery much easier)
- Faster checkpointing for save-while-active (I can eliminate user downtime for backups)
- For those stuck with Windows, DB2 can now be a .NET data provider
- Kerberos support for EIM.
This is the same hardware that the new pSeries will run on later this year; for once the iSeries folks get the new toys first.
The IBM Virtualization Engine announcements last week ( http://www.midrangeserver.com/tfh/tfh050304-story03.html ) is basically the new box with software to glue the pieces together.
Now if I can only talk my boss into upgrading. We could replace our aging 4-way box with a uniprocessor and still get a 60% boost in performance.
- Speed: 1.65GHz, dual-core
- SMT in each core (Symmetric Multi Threading; equivalent to Intel Hyper Threading)
- Cache: 64KB L1/core, 1.9MB shared L2, L3 controller that handles up to 36MB shared
Overall it looks to get better than twice the throughput of a POWER4 chip, which already spanked Itanic's butt.
And the new AS/400 is now called the eServer i5. It features things like:
- PCI-X (been using it for a couple of years now)
- 2GB (not Gb) interconnects between I/O frames
- 1-4 CPU cores per 4U chassis
- 64GB RAM per 4U chassis
- SMP overhead is low; a 4-way is 3.54 times as fast as a 1-way
- Stack up to 4 chassis to create a 16-way
- Runs native 64-bit i5/OS (OS/400), AIX, and Red Hat or Suse Linux
- Runs off-the shelf Windows on Xeon processor cards
- Dynamic partitioning with automaitc shuffling of resources from partition to partition based on rules. Up to 10 partitions per CPU core; 254 max/machine (when the big boxes get released later this year).
- Plans are for a 64-core box this fall. It'll support 1TB RAM.
Lots of new stuff in the OS that I can use for real-world admin tasks:
- System-level mirroring of disk pools across a WAN (makes disaster recovery much easier)
- Faster checkpointing for save-while-active (I can eliminate user downtime for backups)
- For those stuck with Windows, DB2 can now be a .NET data provider
- Kerberos support for EIM.
This is the same hardware that the new pSeries will run on later this year; for once the iSeries folks get the new toys first.
The IBM Virtualization Engine announcements last week ( http://www.midrangeserver.com/tfh/tfh050304-story03.html ) is basically the new box with software to glue the pieces together.
Now if I can only talk my boss into upgrading. We could replace our aging 4-way box with a uniprocessor and still get a 60% boost in performance.
