RS/6000
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The RS/6000 (for RISC System/6000) now System p5 is IBM's current RISC/UNIX- based server and workstation product line.
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History
Announced in 1990, the RS/6000 replaced the RT-PC. This server family has undergone several name changes in its lifetime. It was originally a line of workstations and servers called RS/6000. The server line was then renamed to the eServer pSeries in 2000 as part of its e-Server branding initiative. With the advent of the POWER5 processor in 2004 the family was rebranded the eServer p5. Now with the global move of the server and storage brands to the System brand with the Systems Agenda, the family has been renamed yet again to System p5 in 2005. The System p5 now encompasses the IBM OpenPower product line.
Features
Its processors use the IBM POWER and PowerPC instruction set architectures and run the AIX operating system and, more recently, 64-bit versions of the Linux operating system.
All IBM System p5 and IBM eServer p5 machines support DLPAR (Dynamic Logical Partitioning) with Virtual I/O and Micro Partitioning.
Deep Blue
Deep Blue a RS/6000 based supercomputer was the first computer system to win a chess game against a reigning world champion (Garry Kasparov) under regular time controls. It is a massively parallel, 30-node, RS/6000, SP-based computer system enhanced with 480 special purpose VLSI chess processors. Its chess playing program is written in the C programming language and runs under the AIX operating system. It was capable of evaluating 100,000,000 positions per second.
See also
- Web-based System Manager, an AIX management software
- Dynamic_Logical_Partitioning
- Linux on Power
- List of IBM products
References
- This article was originally based on material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, which is licensed under the GFDL.