Author: Slater Wold
Date: 14:30:24 08/06/03
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I clicked the "Call me now" option, entered my name & number, and 20 seconds later someone from IBM called me. Of course she couldn't answer my question, but I did get an answer: "For high performance computing (HPC) customers, the p690 has an HPC option that can provide increased memory & I/O bandwidth per processor, resulting in improved performance and enhanced throughput. This specially configured version can elevate performance on certain applications by as much as 30% to 45% over what standard p690 configurations can provide." "In the standard p690 each POWER4 chip contains two processing cores that share an L2 cache. With the p690 HPC option, each chip contains only one processing core, making the chip's full I/O and memory bandwidth available to the single processor." It's about $4M, in a 32-way configuration.
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