SuSE long has supported not just servers based on Intel processors but also three IBM server lines: the pSeries servers that typically run Unix, the iSeries systems for larger companies, and the top-end zSeries mainframes for the largest customers.
Supercomputing is a good market for Intel to try to secure customers for its still-new Itanium processor family, which works very differently from the established Celeron-Pentium-Xeon lineage and thus requires software to be rewritten.
Its xSeries servers use Intel's Xeon and Itanium processors, its pSeries and iSeries use the Power4 processor and its predecessors, while its zSeries mainframe line uses a different IBM-designed processor.
In the case of IBM and HP, it can run operating systems besides Unix, and partition sizes can be expanded or shrunk to accommodate varying work loads. The new servers are the biggest iron in IBM's Squadron family of servers using the Power5...
It will continue to design chipsets, the crucial chips that connect processors to memory, network, storage and other subsystems. Several hundred" engineers in HP's Fort Collins, Colorado, operation will move to Intel, "bolstering the development of...
Organising the company around platforms versus products like flash memory or processors builds on the sales success the company achieved with Centrino, the bundle of chips that go into notebooks. Potentially, the reorganisation around platforms...
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