CNET News: IBM to Ship Supercomputer System This Month | Linux Today

CNET News: IBM to Ship Supercomputer System This Month

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Stephen Shankland
Feb 12, 2005

“IBM plans to begin selling on Feb. 18 a powerful but
power-hungry server specialized for supercomputing tasks, CNET
News.com has learned.

“The p5-575 combines eight Power5 processors and as much as 32GB
of memory into a computing slab 3.5 inches tall, 24 inches wide and
50 inches deep. IBM will begin selling the servers in clusters of
eight on Feb. 18 and clusters of 128 on April 29, according to
IBM’s Web site…”


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