“使用即将来临的 Power5处理器的服务器将无需关闭系统就可以完成日常的维护工作;同时,用户也可以看到它比原有的系统有明显的性能提升。”IBM 的发言人在上周于美国圣何赛举办的微处理器论坛上说,“这款处理器将于明年中期按计划推出。”新处理器的设计看上去有些类似于日前的 Power4、Power4+处理器的增强版,它把例如逻辑分区、按需扩展能力以及 Chip Kill 内存等能力放入了芯片中。IBM 的发言人 Joel Tendler说,Power5处理器的这些新特性将在结构上与现有的 Power4、Power4+处理器在二进制上兼容,这对于用户来说可以降低成 “Servers using the upcoming Power5 processor will do their day-to-day maintenance without shutting down the system, and users will see significant performance improvements over their legacy systems.” An IBM spokesman last week “The processor will go live as planned by mid-next year.” The new processor design looks somewhat similar to the previous Power4, Power4 + processor’s enhanced version of the Such as logical partitioning, on-demand scaling, and Chip Kill memory. Joel Tendler, a spokesman for IBM, said these new features in the Power5 processor will be structurally binary compatible with existing Power4, Power4 + processors for users to reduce