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IBM Brings Out the Big GunsAim for the head and take no prisoners |
By Dan Frincu, Hardware Editor
6th of April 2007, 14:57 GMT
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In today's economy, in order for an action to succeed, it must be backed-up by solid facts, or better said, by a large enough pocket to sponsor the desired action. Therefore, taking action will result in progress
(hypothetically speaking in the best-case scenario), and progress has a number of factors which define it; bigger is considered better, faster means more, cheaper also means more, and looking at progress with intelligence means being able to do everything bigger, faster and cheaper. Two thirds out of that tells us that an economical progress is based on more. More what? More resources, or the way they are processed and if you consider the remaining third part, it can be perceived as both better and, of course, more.
So progress is the use of resources with the goal of obtaining more resources; that principle applies in every field of economy and to many aspects of what we do in our lives. Take the simplest of examples, we eat, in order to survive, so we take one resource and turn it into the energy we need to carry out our lives, which is another type of resource. In the things we do every day, we have to work, amongst other things, with computers; by doing so we come, sometimes, to the conclusion that we need more powerful computers in order to make our work easier. The first thing we do when we want to improve our computers is to upgrade certain components or to add more computer parts.
This way, we can ensure that the system will run smoothly, and such is the case with IBM as they are launching new products in their server line which take advantage of the new low-wattage processors from Intel and AMD. Part of having more powerful computers isn't limited to the desktop use, the most "stressed" computers remain the ones in the server business, and they are the most common ones to get upgraded to newer technology. IBM has used two new quad-core Intel Xeon processors, from the Clovertown 5300 series, which run at 1.6 and 1.86GHz respectively.
They are used in rack-mounted x3650 and x3550 servers and in the HS21 blade server. AMD Opteron processors such as the 2.6GHz HE (65W TDP) and 1.8GHz EE (40W TDP) are being used in two-processor LS21 and four-processor LS41 blade servers.
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