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To: boris_a who wrote (112258)	10/3/2000 2:10:14 PM
From: The Duke of URL©	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

IBM's new server: 9 Billion transactions a day. I guess old Tom Watson's prediction was right after all. :)) New Technology The heart of the z900 is the IBM multichip module (MCM) -- the densest, most advanced semiconductor and packaging technology in the world. The 5`` x 5'' x 1/4`` module contains 35 chips mounted on 101 layers of ceramic glass connected to 4,226 I/O pins by 1 kilometer of wire. The module uses IBM's leading-edge copper technology and contains 2.5 billion transistors. Designed and manufactured by IBM's world-class chip developers, this leading-edge technology provides significant advantages in performance, power consumption and reliability. The z900 reaches unprecedented levels in capacity and security, including: Greater than 2,500 MIPs on 16 processors -- Unix competitors claim they can match this but none of their servers have been designed to run multiple workloads on the same server all at once. Clustered, the z900 can handle up to 9 billion transactions/day (300 million transactions/day stand alone). 24 GB/second of I/O bandwidth -- G6 had 8 GB/second and Sun has 6.4 GB/second. The bandwidth has been tripled to accommodate applications that require huge I/O bandwidth to process the large number of transactions and inquiries driven by the Internet. FICON enhancements -- offers native FICON attachment to Magstar tape storage that enhances performance, distance and sharing capabilities for networked storage. It also features FICON directors for Magstar tape and the IBM Enterprise Storage Server. Enhanced Capacity on Demand capabilities -- scales effortlessly from 1-way to 16-way processor capability on the fly and without disruption. 2,000 Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) transactions/second -- the best Sun claims is 125 SSL/second. SSL transactions -- those that cause the ``locked'' padlock icon to appear at the bottom of browsers -- are crucial to e-business transactions, enabling companies to securely process orders on-line. The ability to process greater numbers of SSL transactions means businesses can serve more customers and make more sales in less time. New HiperSocket technology -- provides high speed TCP/IP connectivity between virtual servers within a single z900, creating a network in a box. The IBM eServer zSeries 900 will be available on December 18, 2000.