IBM eServer breaks Internet speed record

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, AUG. 12. IBM with India offices in Bangalore, has announced that its IBM eServer system had set a new world record for Web-serving performance in the SPECweb99 benchmark, overtaking other servers. This benchmark record has highlighted the continued leadership of IBM's existing UNIX servers at a time when it is prepared a new lineup.

Mr Basu Hurkadi, Country Manager, Enterprise Server Group, IBM India, said: ``We expect to extend our performance leadership even more in the fourth quarter, when IBM delivers the next generation POWER4-based systems''.

An IBM eServer p680 12-way system running Zeus 3.3.8.4 Web server software supported 9,106 simultaneous connections, compared to 8,739 from its nearest competitor. Designed to replicate real- world Web server performance, SPEVweb99 simulated a server that supports multiple WEb home pages with rotating advertisements, customised page creation, user registration and other dynamic operations.

The IBM eServer draws considerable strength from its microprocessors, which belong to IBM's PowerPC architecture. The p680's microprocessors are infused with numerous technical innovations such as IBM's copper and Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) technologies. Microprocessors buit with copper and SOI run up to 35 per cent faster and at much cooler temperatures than traditional aluminium chips, increasing server performance and up-time.

Copper and SOI technologies were pioneered in IBM's research laboratories. The next generation of IBM's microprocessor architecture- PWER4- is expected to extend IBM's leadership in this segment further with the introduction of chip multiprocessing, advanced packaging and dramatic bandwidth improvements.

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