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Now IBM is getting ready for Power5 and the systems it will drive.
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The first working prototypes of Power5 arrived in Austin during the past month or so, and IBM managers like what they see.
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The chip, after exhaustive testing and tweaking, will show up in servers that IBM will introduce during the first half of 2004.
Click here for the original article. It seems that both AMD/Cray and IBM are gunning for the top-supercomputer status.
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PS: My statement concerning the proposed supercomputer is for the following quote;
The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has signed up to buy a supercomputer that will use 12,544 Power5 chips.
AMD/Cray has their $90 million ~16,000 microprocessors Opteron based supercomputer project.
Reference - click here
