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Mainframe runs 50B instructions/sec

Posted: 06 Sep 2010  Print Version  Bookmark and Share Subscribe

Keywords: mainframe  computer  microprocessor 

[Summary of tips] IBM Corp. will begin shipping a new mainframe computer capable of 50 billion instructions per second, powered by 96 microprocessors with clock speeds up to 5.2GHz.The company says the z196 processor is a four-core chip that contains 1.4 billion transistors on a 512mm2 surface. The chip was designed by IBM engineers in Poughkeep......
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