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IBM to Launch Power6 Chip Next Month
Breitbart.com ^
| 21 May 2007
| JORDAN ROBERTSON
Posted on 05/21/2007 6:50:59 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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posted on
05/21/2007 6:51:00 AM PDT
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ShadowAce
To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; ..
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posted on
05/21/2007 6:51:16 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
a speed 25 million times as fast as the flap of hummingbird wings The new measure of processor speed: HBW.
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posted on
05/21/2007 6:57:39 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Izzy Dunne
The new measure of processor speed: HBW. Well, considering the speeds already achieved, I'd say mHBW.
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posted on
05/21/2007 6:59:06 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Izzy Dunne
Heh, most useless statistic ever..
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posted on
05/21/2007 6:59:18 AM PDT
by
Tolsti
To: ShadowAce
Besides the obvious processing gains, "this translates into a much, much smaller carbon footprint" for companies, he said. Unnngh... I missed this when I read the story on Breitbart...
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posted on
05/21/2007 7:02:15 AM PDT
by
tubebender
(Watching grass dry and mowing the paint since 1933...)
To: ShadowAce
...the new IBM chip also has massive bandwidth—300 gigabytes per second—which the company says can process the download of the entire iTunes music catalog, currently more than 5 million songs, in about a minute.Of course, getting that much data to the processor is another story...
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posted on
05/21/2007 7:02:25 AM PDT
by
randog
(What the...?!)
To: ShadowAce
mHBW. I would read that as milli-humming bird wings, when it should be mega-humming bird wings:
25 MHBW = 25,000,000 HBW.
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posted on
05/21/2007 7:02:29 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Izzy Dunne
Good point. The “M” should be a capital.
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posted on
05/21/2007 7:03:23 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Izzy Dunne
>>a speed 25 million times as fast as the flap of hummingbird wings
The new measure of processor speed: HBW.<<
Oh Lord...
This could be the new technology reference
http://www.hbw.com/
Seriously, if the author thinks people don’t know what “giga” means he could have said a billion instead of bringing birds into it.
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posted on
05/21/2007 7:06:09 AM PDT
by
gondramB
(No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil)
To: ShadowAce
The dramatic performance boost comes as the semiconductor industry has largely shifted its focus away from pure performance measurements ... the chip, which operates at 4.7 gigahertz and cycles at a speed 25 million times as fast as the flap of hummingbird wings.... Hummingbird wings, eh? I guess that means that the more traditional, pure performance-based, "Rhino pulse rate" scale has been replaced?
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posted on
05/21/2007 7:06:37 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: ShadowAce
WOW! Porn at the speed of........LIVE!.........
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posted on
05/21/2007 7:11:44 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
05/21/2007 7:14:17 AM PDT
by
tubebender
(Watching grass dry and mowing the paint since 1933...)
To: r9etb
I guess that means that the more traditional, pure performance-based, "Rhino pulse rate" scale has been replaced? RPH is still used to measure election cycles.
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posted on
05/21/2007 7:22:13 AM PDT
by
LexBaird
(PR releases are the Chinese dog food of political square meals.)
To: tubebender
Pay-per-view....with a request line...........
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posted on
05/21/2007 7:27:10 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
To: ShadowAce
Go ahead, try buying one at a decent price if you are not already an "IBM shop".
Solaris and Linux here, and for a reason ...
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posted on
05/21/2007 7:30:23 AM PDT
by
ikka
To: ShadowAce
Besides the obvious processing gains, "this translates into a much, much smaller carbon footprint" for companies, he said.Hopefully, they're not using this as a primary selling point. LOL!
I can see the IT folks sitting around the table...."In order to reduce the carbon footprint of our servers, we'll be purchasing these ridculously expensive models, and will need to let 1/2 the staff go....Of course, those that remain will be expected to work 80 hour weeks to make up the difference. BUT, we'll be 'carbon neutral'!!!"
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posted on
05/21/2007 7:51:17 AM PDT
by
wbill
To: Red Badger
WOW! Porn at the speed of........LIVE!.........
At the speed they're talking, it wouldn't so much be porn as a sneak attack that left you weak, confused and needing a moist towelette.
I think I'll stick to good old fashioned cave paintings of naked women. It's safer.
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posted on
05/21/2007 7:56:09 AM PDT
by
Dr.Zoidberg
(Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
To: Dr.Zoidberg
Cave paintings were essentially “Shopping Lists” for cavemen from the cave women. “Bring THIS home for supper!”....and “This is HOW you do it!”.............
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posted on
05/21/2007 7:57:51 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(My gerund got caught in my diphthong, and now I have a dangling participle...............)
To: Red Badger
The more things change, the mare they remain the same.
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posted on
05/21/2007 7:59:14 AM PDT
by
Dr.Zoidberg
(Mohammedanism - Bringing you only the best of the 6th century for fourteen hundred years.)
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