[ Thanks to Tom for this link. ]
“Fresh off the success of the now famous Big Mac cluster, IBM
has planned a new line of blade servers based on its PowerPC 970
processor.“According to this document, IBM plans to roll out the
BladeCenter JS20, which will be comprised of dual processor PowerPC
systems. The processors will run at 1.6GHz with an 800MHz front
side bus. They will fit into the existing BladeCenter chassis used
to house Xeon-based blades…“It looks like IBM will offer SuSE Linux and TurboLinux on the
system first and not roll out AIX until the third quarter of next
year…”
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