Thread: THE WORLD'S FASTEST COMPUTER processor chip

IBM HAS RECENTLY LAUNCHED THE WORLD'S FASTEST COMPUTER processor chip called the dual-core POWER6 in India. With this launch, the company's System p570, which the company claims to be the world's most powerful midrange consolida¬tion machine, and blade Center JS22 servers, both powered by this new chip, would be available in the country. According to Morgan Stanley, energy used to power and cool today's data centres 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 has been spent on data centre energy requirements worldwide, and IDC predicts that power and cooling spend in the data cen¬tre will grow eight times the rate ofhardware spend. For the cost conscious Indian companies, virtualisation and adoption of green technologies is the ideal solution.



The new chip at 4.7 GHZ, is twice as fast as its predecessor, but uses nearly the same amount of electricity to run and cooL This means custom¬ers can use the new processor to either increase their performance by 100 per cent or cut their power consumption by 50 per cent, said Manish Gupta who heads the research Lab at IBM.