IBM gives birth to 'wire-speed' processor2010-02-10 09:50 by DanielaTags: IBM, processor
IBM has introduced a new chip design that sits somewhere between a network processor and server processor. Dubbed the Wire-Speed Power Processor, the chip is aimed at what IBM calls "new, evolving markets in the system industry." Applications include edge-of-network processing, intelligent I/O for servers and network attached appliances, distributed computing, and network streaming. "I think this product is one of the most complex chips we've ever done in the history of IBM," said IBM's chief wire-speed architect Charlie Johnson while presenting his paper on the chip at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Monday in San Francisco. The paper describes wire-speed processors as being "not network endpoints that consume data, but inline processors that filter or modify data and send it on." "If you look into a typical tiered data center," said Johnson, "what you'll find is there's a range of systems in there, ranging all the way from the network to the file servers and database servers. And so wire-speed processing is at the convergence of network processing and database-server kinds of server processing." Read more -here-
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