IBM Shoots Down Quad-Core Power5+ Modules for the System i
October 2, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan
Several weeks ago, after I became irritated by the relatively poor showing that the System i5 machines using the new Power5+ processors had in the Bang for the Buck series of articles that have been running in The Four Hundred, I wrote a story that basically said that if IBM cannot tune i5/OS and DB2/400 to take advantage of the iron the way it has done for AIX and DB2 UDB, then it should just throw hardware at the problem and move to the quad-core module (QCM) variants of the Power5+ and drop these into the System i5. This |