It seems that Compagnie des Machines Bull SA and IBM Corp will carry forward their PowerPC development pact beyond planned 604 and 620 PowerScale symmetric multiprocessing system enhancements in a series of ‘open projects’ that will focus on new technology building blocks, though not – at least for the time being anyway – systems. Two-way daughter boards may be expanded to accommodate four PowerPCs, other stuff is still sensitive. Bull’s Escalas will be generally available in January.
