The RISC System/6000 (RS/6000) is a family of RISC -based (Reduced Instruction Set Computer-based) Unix servers, workstations and supercomputers made by IBM in the 1990s. The RS/6000 family replaced the IBM RT PC computer platform in February 1990 and is the first computer line to see the use of IBM's POWER and PowerPC based microprocessors.

Jan 20, 2012 · RS/6000 7012 G Series Documentation for the RS/6000 7012 G Series can be found in this section. Select from a list of models to access information about your specific RS/6000 model.

Scalable POWERparallel (SP) is a series of supercomputers from IBM. SP systems were part of the IBM RISC System/6000 (RS/6000) family, and were also called the RS/6000 SP. The first model, the SP1, was introduced in February 1993, and new models were introduced throughout the 1990s until the RS/6000 was succeeded by eServer pSeries in October 2000.

Although the RISC-driven PC didn’t meet with much success, it led to subsequent advancements of the microprocessor. In 1990, IBM released the RISC System/6000, later shortened to IBM RS/6000, which was the progenitor of the high-performance, low-energy-consumption line of IBM Power Systems.

(RISC System/6000) The earlier generation and original name of IBM's System p family of scientific workstations and servers that merged into the Power Systems brand. The RS/6000 line was the...

(4.3 BSD) compatible. The RISC System/6000 (RS/6000) CPU is a highly concurrent superscalar second-generation RISC engine based on the new IBM POWER architecture. It combines this powerful RISC architecture with sophisticated hardware-design techniques to achieve a short cycle time and a low cycles-per-instruction (CPI) ratio.

The RS/6000 CPU features multiple-instruction dispatch, multiple functional units that operate concurrently, separate instruction and data caches, and zero-cycle branches.

New RS/6000 servers, including Internet-ready systems equipped with Lotus Notes and electronic-commerce software, are brought out in October. The U.S. Department of Energy selects IBM to build the world™s fastest supercomputer.

IBM achieved leadership performance in the high-end SMP UNIX server marketplace through the balanced design of the 24-way RS/6000 7017 Model S80, which ranked top in the industry standard TPC-C benchmark at 135,815.

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