IBM plans to announce in local time, which will use a higher performance processor in the JS20 blade server, and run AIX operating system.
IBM is responsible for the main Tim said, these changes means that the JS20 blade server will be more comparable to the low-end UNIX server of IBM, other IBMs, etc. in terms of processing capabilities.
In the blade server market, IBM's competitors include HP, Dell, Sun. Tim said that IBM's first blade server uses Intel's chips, but JS20 uses PowerPC 970 chips. The earliest version of JS20 blade server uses 1.6GHz PowerPC 970 chip, and new products use 2.2GHz PowerPC 970 FX chip. Compared with the original model, the software has a running speed on the new product by 50%. The new system starting price is $ 2,699 and will be released from October 29.
When just launch, JS20 can only run Linux, but now it can also run AIX. IBM's initiative will make JS20 blade server more attractive to universal enterprise users, not just only to high-performance computing users. is attractive. The JS20 blade server currently supports AIX5.2. At the end of the year, it will also support AIX5.3. IBM will also use Intel's 3.6GHz Nocona version to strong chip in the HS20 blade server, the system's delivery time is 11 On the 12th, the starting price is $ 2039.
In addition, IBM has used new hard drives in its blade servers. Previously, IBM's blade servers use Ide hard drives, now there is a SCSI hard drive with higher access speed and larger storage capacity. This greatly increases the performance of the blade server when running some applications. IBM said that JS20 blade servers will use SCSI hard drives in 1 year.
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