22 

2002

The Research Center Juelich in Germany purchases a new supercomputer based on 

IBM

POWER4 microprocessor technology that will achieve a peak performance of 5.8 trillion 

computations a second. When delivered and installed, the new system will be the fastest 

supercomputer in Germany.  

IBM

 announces the 

IBM

 eServer i890, featuring mainframe class technology and the company's 

game changing POWER4 microprocessor. The 32 way i890, running the latest release of the 

iSeries operating system    

OS

/400 Version 5 Release 2    nearly doubles the processing power 

of the previous top of the line iSeries, the i840, and delivers enhanced server consolidation 

capabilities with support for up to 32 

OS

/400 or Linux dynamic logical partitions.  

During 2002, 

IBM

 introduces: in February, the 

IBM

 eServer xSeries 330 with Memory 

eXpansion Technology that can effectively double memory and significantly increase 

performance compared with servers with an equal amount of memory. ..... in March, the 

IBM

eServer xSeries 440 with Enterprise X Architecture technology. Offering a building block style 

architecture, the x440 allows customers to pay for computing power incrementally as they need 

it, and is designed to support up to 16 processors and 64 

GB

 of memory. (

IBM

 begins shipping 

the 16 way 

IBM

 eServer x440 in volume in December.) ..... in June, the 

IBM

 eServer x235 two 

way server for medium size businesses deploying solutions such as file and print as well as more 

critical mail/collaboration solutions. ..... in July, the 

IBM

 eServer x345, a rack based server 

designed to dramatically reduce the proliferation of cables that add complexity and cost to high 

density environments. ..... the following month, the 

IBM

 eServer x335, a rack optimized server 

that sets the design standard for web application serving (able to run both the Linux and 

Windows operating systems, the x335 offers customer flexibility to link together many servers in 

powerful clusters or computing grids) and new two  or four way eServer x440 entry models. ..... 

in November, new models of the four way 

IBM

 eServer x255 rack and tower system, new four 

way models of the eServer x360 rack dense server, new four  and eight way models of the 

highly scalable eServer x440 and the 

IBM

 eServer x225 featuring the Intel Xeon processor. 

IBM

 announces plans in April to introduce a powerful blade system that delivers high 

performance computing in an ultra dense server. Five months later, the new 

IBM

 eServer 

BladeCenter system is introduced as one of the most powerful blade servers in the industry. 

Blade servers    which are on removable cards that plug into a chassis (or shared infrastructure)  

  are used to consolidate 

information technology (IT

) infrastructures in such areas as e mail and 

collaboration, e commerce applications, Linux clusters and other enterprise applications. The 

need for high reliability is magnified in blade systems where potentially hundreds of servers are 

stacked like books on a shelf in a single small space.  

In October, 

IBM

 defines the next phase of its company wide Autonomic Computing initiative, 

including plans for a series of products and offerings coordinated by the recently formed 

Autonomic Computing cross company unit, and a new autonomic deployment model that 

outlines a staged approach for helping customers chart a course for establishing an autonomic 

IT

environment.  

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