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To: Gerald Walls who wrote (98610)	2/9/2000 2:27:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Intel Investors - IBM's Copper-based SuperComputer is a TESTEMONIAL to the positive effects of Copper Metallization ! The new PowerPC copper CPUs in the new RS6000 Supercomputer have been SPEEDED UP to a WHOPPING 375 MHz !!! 375 MHz !!! Isn't copper wonderful? Paul {======================================} IBM High-End Server Gets Copper Boost By Mo Krochmal, TechWeb Feb 8, 2000 (2:07 PM) URL: techweb.com IBM is adding copper to its top-end supercomputer Wednesday with the introduction of the RS/6000 SP at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. The RS/6000 SP was the powerful computer made famous in the victory over chess master GarryKasparov in May 1997. The computers are the newest in IBM's line of RISC-based workstations and servers that use Big Blue's variation of Unix, AIX. First introduced in 1990, the SPs are used in such applications as analysis and simulation in industries such as aerospace, automobile, and drug manufacturing. Last February, IBM rolled out SP units with Power3 microprocessors. This year, the company is running the computer with Power3-II processors built on IBM copper technology. The computer has 144 nodes with 1,152 64-bit microprocessors, running at 375 MHz. The addition of the copper technology, a process pioneered by IBM that replaces the aluminum wiring in a computer chip with copper, makes a faster computer, said Rod Adkins, IBM general manager of Web servers. "On a raw technology level, this is getting 20 percent or better performance just by using copper," Adkins said. With this rollout, IBM is using its copper technology throughout its server lines, he said. Computers like the RS/6000 SP are used in high-end applications like modeling worldwide weather patterns or other similarly intensive computational chores and are also used for complex business tasks like data mining or ERP applications. An increase in processing speed may translate to being able to run a more complex weather calculation that takes a week or longer to process, said Thomas Zacharia, director of the computer science and mathematics division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tenn. "This machine will allow us to go to a higher and higher resolution," Zacharia said. "We can run some of our climate calculations with minimum disruption at the high end." The Oak Ridge lab has been testing the machine since December, Zacharia said. The SP will be available commerically, starting at $46,650, IBM said.