IBM introduces fast 4-way web server

SPECweb99 is an industry-standard benchmark for measuring Internet and application serving performance.

To complement this powerhouse server, IBM announced the RS/6000 44P Model 170, a uniprocessor system that contains either a 333 MHz or 400 MHz POWER3-II copper chip microprocessor. The design of this entry server is optimized for high performance Web and application hosting, firewalls, Web caching, and messaging solutions like Lotus Domino.


The fast performance offered by the Model 270 and Model 170 is in part derived from the IBM-pioneered copper wiring technology incorporated into the 64-bit POWER3-II chip. Copper increases microprocessor performance substantially over chips that use aluminum wire. A single POWER3-II chip contains about 400 meters of copper wiring.


The Model 270 and Model 170 are designed for seamless growth, allowing companies to meet the unpredictable demands of e-business. With the Model 270, customers can upgrade quickly and easily from a one- to four-processor configuration and from 256MB to 8GB of ECC SDRAM memory. There are also five disk/media bays accommodate up to 54.6GB of internal Ultra2 SCSI disk storage. The Model 170, which includes up to 2GB of ECC SDRAM memory capacity and 72.8GB of Ultra2 SCSI internal disk storage, can be upgraded from a 333 MHz to a 400 MHz microprocessor.

In addition, the Model 270 and Model 170 can be attached directly to the IBM 2104 Expandable Storage Plus (Ultra2 SCSI), which houses up to 10 bays of drives that can range in size from 9.1GB to 36GB each. The servers can also be attached directly to the IBM 7133 Serial Disk System (SSA).
Both provide terabytes of highly-reliable, hot-swappable external storage.

Pricing for the Model 270 starts at $16,995 for a single processor system and $35,995 for a 4-way system. Pricing for the Model 170 starts at $10,495 for the 333 MHz-based system and $15,495 for the 400 MHz-based system.

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