To combat the high hopes for the IBM Power processor

　　Wei Feng network, November 20, IBM recently announced that they are and chip maker Xilinx (Xilinx) cooperation, will Power the processor usage extended to the server field, hoping to compete with Intel in the data center market.

　　It was earlier this week, IBM announced a message relating to the company's Open Power schemes. Last year, IBM introduced the Open Power Power processor design program is designed to be licensed to other companies, and to inject new vitality into this product. Ted Baker iPhone cases

　　Penguin Computing and from Italy of E4 Computer Engineering in the production of high performance computer system based on Power chips. IBM says they are and NVIDIA collaborate in the Watson supercomputer that uses the same Power Chip uses NVIDIA GPU.

　　This is IBM's big changes. Prior to this, only IBM Power servers company is able to produce, because it uses IBM technology. As the Unix market share fell, IBM Corporation selected to Power the platform open, so that third parties can produce Power-related products.

　　It is understood that IBM Open Power President Brad McCredie said, cooperation with the Xilinx company will make IBM and its partners in the Power system using Xilinx FPGA chip company. The chips can improve certain types of server load and run faster. He added: "Moore began to slow, FPGA chip to become the key to improve server performance. "

　　Xilinx's chips to IBM's CAPI (accelerator processor interface) work together and provides direct access to Power the processor's cache, thus improving system performance.

　　IBM's Power was an attempt to challenge Intel's dominance of the two X86 in the server platform, one of the other ARM. Qualcomm has announced that it will develop the first ARM Server chips, they also cooperate with Xilinx, want the FPGA and ARM chips together.

　　At present, IBM and ARM, to create software and hardware can match Intel's eco-system is a very difficult task. Intel is implementing the strategy of combining its chip and FPGA, and will also speed up the process. Taking into account the factors of cost and performance, some customers prefer to be able to see the other server platforms appear, for the industry as a whole, such competition is very conducive to development. Ted Baker phone cover

　　In addition, Penguin Computing will on Monday launch a next-generation high performance computer systems based on IBM Power processor 8 Magna 2001. This 2U system supports 12 storage drives and 32 memory slots, running the memory up to 2TB. Like other Penguin systems running Linux.

　　Penguin Computing's President and Chief Executive Officer Dr Tom Coull said, because virtual CPU cores that support up to 96 and, therefore, Magna 2001 is a very powerful virtualization platform. Because the Power of 8 processors and higher memory bandwidth, the system is also very suitable for cloud storage.

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