<A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5751972.html?tag=zdnn.alert">IBM will boost the processing power</A> of its p5-575 server, a machine geared for high-performance technical computing tasks. Each p5-575 ships with eight Power5 chips, but each chip has only one of its two processing engines, called cores, activated. By the end of the year, though, Big Blue will ship the system with eight dual-core processors.