IBM RS/6000 sets WEB server record - available in October with AIX
Wonder if its powered by IBM's SOI & copper process in a new PowerPC chip . Its running a new AIX (UNIX) release:
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" The Web-serving record was set on an RS/6000 S80 Enterprise Server, a six- to 24-way, 64-bit system expected to become available in October.
Fast servers that are reliable and can handle large numbers of users are considered critical to companies transitioning their businesses and their customer relationships to the Internet.
A 12-way S80, running a pre-release version of AIX 4.3.3, the IBM UNIX operating system, delivered a SPECweb96 benchmark result of 40,161 http ops./sec., 66 percent better than the former champ, the HP 9000 N-Class server from Hewlett-Packard.
SPECweb96 measures the maximum number of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) operations per second.
''IBM is the recognized leader in e-business, and RS/6000 systems lead the industry in SPECweb96 performance,'' said Debra Thompson, vice president, RS/6000 Product Marketing and Segment Solutions.
''It's also notable that we used only 12 processors in a system that can have up to 24. We had said we're going to be the Web-performance leaders, and IBM now holds four of the top five slots, with RS/6000 servers one, four and five in the SPECweb96 rankings.''(1) "
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Still Thinking Different that a Sequent purchase is a smoke screen . If IBM buys Sequent its not for the reasons stated yesterday which are muted by the above.
Jim K.
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