Power7, a new Processor 8 Core from IBM
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 13:17
The speed of IBM’s processor become faster and faster especially with the presence of a new product, IBM eight-core processor – Power7, that will compete with products made by Hewlett Packard and Sun Microsystems. In fact, each core is capable of executing four activities – commonly called thread – so this really one processor has 32 virtual cores.
Some breakthrough was made in the Power7 is a combination of two IBM processor technology, namely the chip technology “Power” with a chip technology “Cell”. This processor which based on Cell basis has been also used in various devices from supercomputer Roadrunner at Los Alamos National Laboratory to the PlayStation 3.
“We took the essence of Cell program that helps the process of calculations (floating point) and put it in the core Power7,” said Bradley McCredie, members of the Systems and Technology Group of IBM, as quoted by CNET.
Power7 designed to support the development of grid computing – a computer circuit to double the speed of computing processes. This processor is offered in three classes each: the IBM Power 780 for modular high-performance servers that support up to 64 cores, Power 770 for the middle class, and Power 755 for high performance computer clusters or high performance computing cluster (HPCC) with 32 cores.
