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IBM next month will begin shipping high-end servers in their pSeries and iSeries lines running on its Power5 processor.
The Armonk, N.Y., company will launch the 32-way p590, the 64-way p595 and the 64-way i595, IBM officials will announce Friday.
The virtualization features offered with the servers coupled with the dual-core capabilities in the Power5 give the new systems an advantage over competing high-end Unix servers from Hewlett-Packard Co. and Sun Microsystems Inc., according to IBM officials.
"These are truly the largest servers the world's ever seen," said Karl Freund, vice president of product marketing for the pSeries. "It's got 2.9 times the performance of [IBM's] p690. That's a lot of horsepower. These are the ultimate server...
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