The IBM has announced two high-end Power Systems models - the world’s fastest UNIX server and a unique water cooled supercomputer.     An announcement to this effect was made in a statement issued here on Thursday.
It said that the new systems offer sophisticated IBM virtualization technology and energy-saving capabilities to help dramatically reduce bottom-line operating costs, such as those for energy, floor space and systems management, while improving system performance, helping customers transition to a new enterprise data center.
The statement maintained that the new UNIX enterprise server designed to extend IBM’s leadership in the UNIX market and will be attractive to existing IBM clients as well as Sun Solaris and HP UNIX users.
For example, it added, IBM’s Power enterprise 64-core server delivers twice the performance at a comparable price as a similarly configured HP Superdome Itanium system.
IBM’s new POWER6 “Hydro-Cluster” supercomputer is built to help users tackle some of the world’s most challenging problems in fields such as energy, aerospace and weather modeling.
The new super-dense system, representing a breakthrough in green IT, uses a unique, in-rack, water-cooling system and with 448 processor cores per rack offers users nearly five times the performance and more than three times the energy efficiency of its predecessor, IBM’s POWER5 processor-based p575 supercomputer.