POWER3 microprocessor can perform up to two billion operations per second.
Published:
5 February 1999 y., Friday
Monday unveiled a more powerful supercomputer that is part of IBM_s plan to extend the use of what it calls "Deep Computing" by business users. The new supercomputer is an example of IBM_s effort to commercialize Deep Computing, which is the capacity to tie together unprecedented computer processing power and advanced software and algorithms to solve complex problems and derive meaning from vast mountains of data. "The Internet revolution is creating unprecedented quantities of data. The SP excels at helping people turn that data into valuable information," said R. Adkins, general manager, RS/6000. IBM_s next-generation RS/6000 SP supercomputer system contains the POWER3 microprocessor, the direct successor to the POWER2 Super Chip inside "Deep Blue," known for its chess victory over world chess champion G. Kasparov in 1997. IBM said the POWER3 microprocessor can perform up to two billion operations per second and is more than twice as powerful as IBM_s preceding RS/6000 machine. The POWER3 chip is aimed at applications such as computer analysis and simulation programs used by aerospace, automobile and drug manufacturers, the company said. The SP is a scalable system made up of building blocks called nodes, which can function alone or work with hundreds of other nodes. The system allows researchers to throw massive amounts of data-processing capacity at single tasks, or divide the processing power to handle a range of less intensive work.
Šaltinis:
IBM Corp.
Copying, publishing, announcing any information from the News.lt portal without written permission of News.lt editorial office is prohibited.
The most popular articles
Software company announced new structure_ of it_s business.
more »
Microsoft's Bing search engine will be the sole provider of search and paid search technology for all of Yahoo's websites. Yahoo will sell premium search ads for both companies.
more »
Thales UK today announces that its Cat III Instrument Landing System (ILS)1 has received UK approval for installation at Bournemouth Airport.
more »
Postbank customers can now pay their fuel bills at Shell service stations and withdraw cash as stations in Hamburg, Germany, have been converted to the new technology from Wincor Nixdorf International.
more »
Japanese company Crescent has simulated a series of emergency situations that people may have to deal with in the workplace. By practicing with these simulations they can learn how to cope with a real-life crisis.
more »
The touchscreen device built on Google's Android platform equates to a bold attempt by HTC to take on Apple's popular iPhone - not by creating a copycat - but by building an attractive alternative.
more »
A devious piece of criminal coding that has been quietly at work in a clutch of ATMs at banks in Russia and Ukraine has recently been discovered.
more »
In the person-to-person transfer business, text messaging is so 2008.
more »
Bank Central Asia, one of Indonesia's largest banks, has partnered with Wincor Nixdorf International to rejuvenate its branch network.
more »
What's cooking at Tokyo's International Food Machinery and Technology Expo? For this robo-chef, it's okonomiaki, Japanese pancakes.
more »
Taking attendance at Aoyama University used to be a chore, but no longer as the Japanese school is giving over 500 iPhones to students and faculty in an effort to enhance the classroom experience.
more »