by Common Europe Luxembourg | Sep 13, 2021 | Facts
The first POWER processor was designed at the end of the 1980’s and made its appearance in the RS6000 and AS/400 servers. The RS/6000 was running AIX, IBM´s Unix version, and the AS/400 was designed for OS/400 (now called IBM i). These servers were designed to allow a...
by Common Europe Luxembourg | Apr 19, 2021 | Facts
POWER10 designates a proposed superscalar, multithreading, symmetric multiprocessor family, based on the open source POWER ISA, and announced in August 2020 at the Hot Chips Conference … Firsts (high-end) systems with POWER10 CPUs are intended to reach customers...
by Common Europe Luxembourg | Apr 12, 2021 | Facts
The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these updates always coincides with the...
by Common Europe Luxembourg | Apr 2, 2021 | Facts
The rover’s computer uses a temperature and radiation hardened single board computer based on a ruggedized PowerPC G3 microprocessor (PowerPC 750). The computer contains 128 megabytes of volatile DRAM, and runs at 133 MHz. The flight software runs on an...
