Motorola Inc. / CSC / Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory / FTL Systems / IBM / Scalable POWERparallel Systems / European Laboratory / IBM eServer pSeries Reduced Instruction Set Computer / Server Group / Apple Computer Inc. / RISC Technology Personal Computer / /
Continent
Europe / /
Country
France / /
Currency
Rs / pence / /
Event
Reorganization / Company Expansion / Product Release / /
Facility
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory / European Laboratory / In building / /
IndustryTerm
performance computing / transaction processing performance / disk storage device / cluster software / e - business / mainframe technologies / manufacturing relationship covering / technology support / silicon switching technology / disk technology / e-business infrastructure solution / software enhancements / systems integration services / Internet POWERsolution Web Servers / technology infrastructure / manufacturing / computing / far-reaching open-systems technology / Web-based commerce / faster high-end processor / e-commerce applications / self-healing technologies / software announcements / symmetric multiprocessor computing / p690 systems / Internet POWERsolution Firewall / Internet-ready systems / unprecedented Internet traffic / faster and more powerful personal computing devices / software offerings / transaction processing / electronic-commerce software / e-businesses / Web serving / software programs / program products / performance-enhancing copper technology / Internet Commercial Application Servers / Web home pages / /
OperatingSystem
UNIX / AIX/ESA / AIX / AS/400 / Macintosh / UNIX system / IBM AIX / /
Organization
U.S. Department of Energy / U.S. Government / Cornell Theory Center / Ministry of Education / Large Scale Computing Division / Congress / Power Parallel Division / National Aeronautics and Space Administration / /
Person
Thomas J. Watson / Garry Kasparov / /
Position
AIX/RT / RT / Assistant / AIX Cashier / general business applications / Model 270 / /
Product
p660 Model 6M1 / the world’s most powerful midrange server / S80 enterprise server / Scalable POWERparallel System / Reduced Instruction Set Computer / Superscalar RS/6000 / p690 / S80 / PowerPC / Advanced Interactive Executive/Enterprise Systems Architecture / Model F30 server / Xstation 160 / the first IBM product / TotalStorage 7133 Serial Disk System / S/390 / Model F30 / Xstation 160 / p660 Model 6M1 / /
ProgrammingLanguage
Java / R / /
ProvinceOrState
California / Georgia / Colorado / /
PublishedMedium
Atmospheric Research / /
SportsEvent
Olympic Games / Olympics / 2000 Olympic Games / the Wimbledon / /
Technology
System/6000 technology / RS/6000-based processor / operating system / Network File System / clustering technology / self-healing technologies / Java / RS/6000 technology / Reduced Instruction Set Computer technology / 604 chip / business intelligence / Serial Storage Architecture disk technology / UNIX / ESA-capable processors / ESA / UNIX operating system / performance-enhancing copper technology / far-reaching open-systems technology / Firewall / 1 / 000 processors / UNIX system / one-megabit chip / silicon switching technology / Web server / mainframe technologies / /
A Brief History of RISC, the IBM RS/6000 and the IBM eServer pSeries Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) architecture is the basis for most workstations and UNIX-based servers in use today, and is widely viewed as th