IBM is announcing its Power 7 Server Products and Intel is suppose to be announcing it’s Tukwila Server processor also today.
IBM shows off Power7 HPC monster
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This server node is the heart of the 1 petaflop "Blue Waters" supercomputer being installed at the University of Illinois. (That's sustained, not peak, performance.)
Power7 power lunch and launch next Monday Feb 8 2010
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The word on the street, which has not (and will not) be confirmed by IBM is that the company is going to start its rollout of Power7-based machines at the bottom of the product line, which makes sense if yields are relatively low on the eight-core chips.