Personal computers and mobile devices, which are filled with news about the subject resources, diversity of species inherent computing, is not exhausted. Viability pillars, the most productive of them every six months to get a list of TOP500, at the production level, confirmed this week the company IBM, has released a new series of mainframe System z. Model zEnterprise EC12, which is designed for cloud computing and corporate VC, according to the company of its predecessor by 25% in performance per core.

The number of cores is doubled. The system uses processors operating frequency of 5.5 GHz, which is a world record. By said IBM, the new mainframe is the result of the development, which has been allocated more than a billion dollars.

Among the advantages of the new mainframe called resistant – this is one of the most secure systems class enterprise servers. In the configuration zEC12 is resistant to breaking cryptographic coprocessor Crypto Express4S.

Among the interesting features zEC12 can mention the use to improve the performance of flash memory, as well as – for the first time in a general-purpose servers, IBM – transactional memory, such as in the IBM Blue Gene / Q Sequoia, the fastest supercomputer in the world.