Along with the launch, System p570 server and bladeCenter JS22 powered by this new chip, also would be available in the country.
BANGALORE: IT major IBM has launched the world's fastest microprocessor, the dual-core POWER6 in India.
Along with the launch, System p570 server and bladeCenter JS22 powered by this new chip, also would be available in the country, said Shashi B Mal, Director Systems and Technology Group, IBM India / South Asia.
The POWER6 features industry leading virtualization capabilities, and is also the latest addition to IBM's Project Big Green initiative allowing "unparalleled power savings on mid-range servers through dynamic reallocation of resources, power and cooling benefits", Mal said.
IBM also has bagged the number one position in the Overall Server Market in India in the third quarter of the 2007, in revenue terms, he said while announcing the launch at Maldives on December 7.
The company re-established itself in the X86 and non-Q86 markets with 30 per cent share in the third quarter, he said.
Commenting on the launch of the new offerings, Jyoti Satyanathan, Vice President, IBM India/SA said: "the System p570 server and our blade servers powered by POWER6 processor are industry leading, benchmarked solutions that provide the best return on IT investments to organizations of all sizes".
"According to Morgan Stanley, energy used to power and cool today's data centers represents 44 per cent of the centre's total cost of ownership - and for a company of any size today, a 50 per cent saving is huge."
In 2007, $ 10 billion would be spent on data center energy worldwide, and IDC predicts that power and cooling spend in the data center will grow eight times the rate of hardware spend. For the cost conscious Indian companies, virtualization and adoption of green technologies is the ideal solution, he said.
Virtualization is a means of server consolidation and allows companies to make the most of their existing IT investments by allowing one piece of hardware to run like several independent machines. New virtualization features with POWER6 include partition mobility, application mobility, virtual partition memory, and the ability to use excess dedicated capacity.
The new system p570, the 'world's most powerful midrange consolidation machine', is an industry leading virtualization solution that is the only UNIX server in the industry to feature Live Partition Mobility.
"This breakthrough technique allows customers to move live virtual machines, including all running applications in that virtual machine, from one physical UNIX or Linux POWER6-based server to another while maintaining continuous availability of the applications to end users", said Dr Manish Gupta who heads the research Lab at IBM.
Blade servers allow clients to pack more processors into less space on with the same power and cooling envelope, maximizing valuable floor space in the data center. The tremendous speed and memory of the POWER6, combined with the integration and power savings of IBM BladeCenter, enables customers to create dense, energy efficient data centers.
In addition, the new JS22 BladeCenter Express offers cutting edge technology for virtualization, performance improvement and greater reliability in a Blade form factor, easing the way for consolidation.
At 4.7 GHZ, the POWER6 processor is twice as fast as the previous generation POWER 5, but uses nearly the same amount of electricity to run and cool. This means customers can use the new processor to either increase their performance by 100 per cent or cut their power consumption by 50 per cent, Gupta said.
The POWER6 has a bandwidth of 300 gigabytes per second. The chip weighs less than an ounce, but is twice as powerful as the 1.4 ton Deep Blue supercomputer alunched 10 years ago.
The POWER6 chip includes additional techniques to conserve power and reduce heat generated by POWER6 processor-based servers.
Processor clocks can be dynamically turned off when there was no useful work to be done and turned on when there were instructions to be executed.
Power saving is also realized when the memory is not fully utilized, as power to parts of the memory not being utilized is dynamically turned off and then turned on when needed. In cases where an over-temperature condition is detected, the POWER6 chip can reduce the rate of instruction execution to remain within an acceptable, user-defined temperature envelope.
Renowned for their computing power, IBM System p servers support user needs across a broad range of applications, including transaction processing, web publishing, data mining, systems management and others.
System p products are designed for smaller and mid-sized business and large enterprises that are using UNIX platforms. The servers use AIX, IBM's UNIX-based operating system, and also support thousands of Linux-based applications. Migration services enable customers to quickly and easily convert from competing platforms -- such as Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard -- to IBM hardware.
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