Yes - it was quite nice. The coffee was good. In short - "vmware done in hardware"
It doesn't run windows at all, and the CPU is a 64 bit power5 risc chip. 1-2 and 2-4 way machines available, higher density coming soon. Clock speeds ~1.5 and 1.65 GHz Machines support shitloads of ram... 32 Gb and 64 Gb. Virtualised hardware uses lots of memory. Essentially the hardware does virtualisation, in hardware. You can configure your two CPU box to look like 20 individual servers, each with its own OS and task. The hardware does funky mainframe things like fault monitoring and preemptive failure reporting. Some pictures at http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/openpower/ http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/openpower/news/features/2005/annc_0412. html I didn't win the prize :( did anyone else here? -----Original Message----- From: Richard Tindall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 26 May 2005 1:42 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Invitation from IBM -- the launch of IBM eServer OpenPower Thanks for passing this on Nick. Busy week, missed out.. Nick Rout wrote: >(I have been asked by the author, who is not a member of clug, to >forward this to the list) > >You are invited to the IBM Launch Event for IBM eServer OpenPower -- >IBM's first server tuned specifically for Linux. > <clip> Did anyone attend, who would like to report impressions? Cheers, Rik -- Richard Tindall, InfoHelp Services <http://www.infohelp.co.nz>
