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IBM Launches World's Largest Server Tuesday, April 6, 1999
http://nt.excite.com/news/r/990406/08/tech-computers-ibm SOMERS, N.Y. (Reuters) - IBM Corp. said Tuesday it introduced the world's fastest 64-bit, four-way Web server, designed to provide e-business customers and Internet service providers with unparalleled speed, performance and high availability. The RS/6000 Model H70 addresses the e-business, enterprise resource planning, supply chain planning and business intelligence applications, IBM said in a statement. The server hits sets a new industry record of 11,774 hits per second in the latest benchmark tests that measure basic Web server performance, making it the fastest four-way Web server. The computer giant, in a separate announcement, detailed its advanced Internet projects to help customers transform the way they do business by benefiting from high-speed networks. As part of these projects, IBM will focus on developing advanced technologies and applications that take advantage of bandwidth-rich networks. It launched a global project, International Center for Advanced Internet Research, with Northwestern University and others for creating advanced Internet applications. IBM also said it would form a European Advanced Internet Application Center in the Netherlands in partnership with the Telematics Institute and SURFnet. The center, which is slated to be operational in the second half of 1999, will extend IBM's innovation to European customers who are ready to deploy advanced Internet technologies and will focus on ways to maximize distributed storage technology to enhance network performance. IBM's stock closed Monday up $6.88 at $183.94 on the New York Stock Exchange |