Thursday, May 24, 2007
POWER6 Just Owns It
Earlier this week, IBM announced the System p based on the new POWER6 microprocessor. (System i fans shouldn't worry, POWER6-based systems are on the way.)
Systems running with the new chip excel at key benchmarks. The new IBM System p 570, running the POWER6 processor, claims the No.1 spots in SPECint2006, SPECfp2006, SPECjbb2005 and TPC-C. This is the first time that a single system has owned all four categories.
Linus Torvalds summarized the situation quite well in a recent post to Real World Technologies:
"At 4.7GHz they [IBM] just own it."
