Big Blue goes faster with Sun-bashing server

IBM tells the INQUIRER that the box will deliver 33 per cent more price/performance than Sun's Ultrasparc III range.

The E-Server includes management and other "intelligent" software for when or if things go awry.

Big Blue claims figures it has show that this box in an eight way configuration outperforms a 12-way Sun Ultrasparc III box.

The machine uses 750MHz RS64-4 chips that come with silicon on insulator and copper interconnect.

This Unix box, using the SPECjbb2000 benchmark, "handles 15 per cent more operations/second than Sun's more expensive twelve-way UltraSparcIII-based Sun Fire 6800 and 80 per cent more operations/seconds than an eight-way HP 9000-N4000," boasts IBM.

IBM has Regatta technology coming in the fourth quarter, as we revealed here at the INQUIRER earlier. µ