Re: Power7

[Luis Rodriguez <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx>]

> A moment of silence for the demise of the IOP and Twinax. OK That was
> long enough :-)

What!! No Twinax?

How I'm supposed to connect my 5251? Next, I suppose you are going to tell
me that IBM will announce the demise of POP!!

Regards,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries


On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:06 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I agree with Pete, some pretty amazing stuff. As many of you know I love
> hardware and there is some extremely good thinking as well as
> implementation in this hardware. There will be the inevitable whining
> that GhZ is down a little from POWER6 let not your heart be troubled,
> the cool new stuff still allows POWER7 to do more work in less time and
> with less power to boot. Check them out!
>
> A moment of silence for the demise of the IOP and Twinax. OK That was
> long enough :-)
>
>  - DrFranken
>
> On 2/8/2010 12:59 PM, Pete Massiello wrote:
> > IBM today announced some really interesting stuff on the new POWER7
> boxes,
> > all their features and functionality.  I had been in IBM Rochester two
> weeks
> > ago for an IBM i Champions class where all the information was discussed,
> > but couldn't discuss any of that until today. These new POWER7 machines
> are
> > extremely powerful and fast, and if you haven't heard I would check out
> the
> > IBM website for additional information.  The amount of CPW these boxes
> have
> > will spin your head.
> >
> > These boxes will run IBM i 6.1.1 (now) and 7.1 (when it is available).
> >
> >
> >       Pete
> >
> > Pete Massiello
> > iTech Solutions
> > http://www.itechsol.com
> >
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