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markos
 Post subject: New Power7 HPC from IBM!
PostPosted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 5:38 pm 
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Yes, I know it's not exactly "usable" by us, but still it's nice to know that PowerPC (or rather POWER) is again in the lead:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/27 ... pc_server/
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One mean and expensive super computer..

However, this one doesn't really help us. POWER and
PowerPC aren't' exactly binary compatible, AFAIK?

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However, this one doesn't really help us. POWER and
PowerPC aren't' exactly binary compatible, AFAIK?
They are. PowerPC is the "old" name for POWER.
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Is it? AFAIK the MPC970 was a remake of the POWER4.

PowerPC and POWER has lived side-by-side for many years.

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markos
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Is it? AFAIK the MPC970 was a remake of the POWER4.
PPC970, MPC is usually Motorola/Freescale's prefix :)
And you're right it was based on the POWER4.
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PowerPC and POWER has lived side-by-side for many years.
True. POWER actually preceded PowerPC. But all the recent POWER cpus are more or less binary compatible or can run common code -ie not specifically compiled for a particular architecture- but conforming to the PowerPC ISA.
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