IBM Redbooks highlighting
POWER9
processor-based technology
IBM's new Power System E980 and E950 servers top off the POWER9 family with scalability of up to 64 TB of memory, up to 192 POWER9 technology based processor cores, and PCIe Gen4 I/O expandability. They are designed for industry leading reliability, scalability, serviceability, and manageability.
The following enterprise and scale-out Technical Overview and Introduction Redpapers provide more information about key IBM Power System server offerings:
IBM Power Systems E980
This IBM® Redpaper™ publication gives a broad understanding of a new architecture of the IBM Power System E980 server that support IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux operating systems. The objective of this paper is to introduce the major innovative Power E980 offerings and relevant functions:
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- The IBM POWER9™ processor, which is available at frequencies of 3.55 to 4.0 GHz.
- Significantly strengthened cores and larger caches
- Supports up to 64 TB memory
- Integrated I/O subsystem and hot-pluggable Peripheral Component Interconnect® Express (PCIe) Gen4 slots, double the bandwidth of Gen3 I/O slots.
- Supports EXP12SX, ESP24SX external disk drawers, which has 12Gb SAS interfaces and double the existing EXP24S drawer bandwidth.
- New IBM EnergyScale™ technology offers new variable processor frequency modes that provide a significant performance boost beyond the static nominal frequency.
IBM Power System E950
The following IBM® Redpaper™ publication gives a broad understanding of a new architecture of the IBM Power System E950 server that support IBM AIX®, and Linux operating systems. The objective of this paper is to introduce the major innovative Power E950 offerings and relevant functions:
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- The IBM POWER9™ processor, which is available at frequencies of 2.8 - 3.4 GHz.
- Significantly strengthened cores and larger caches.
- Supports up to 16 TB memory, which is 4 times more than the POWER8® E850.
- Integrated I/O subsystem and hot-pluggable Peripheral Component Interconnect® Express (PCIe) Gen4 slots, double the bandwidth of Gen3 I/O slots.
- Supports EXP12SX, ESP24SX external disk drawers, which has 12Gb SAS interfaces and double the existing EXP24S drawer bandwidth.
- New IBM EnergyScale™ technology offers new variable processor frequency modes that provide a significant performance boost beyond the static nominal frequency.
IBM Power System IC922
Engineered for AI inference, the IBM Power System IC922 provides the compute-intensive and low-latency infrastructure you need to unlock business insights from trained AI models. The POWER9-based Power IC922 provides advanced interconnects (PCIe Gen4, OpenCAPI) to support faster data throughput and decreased latency. Accelerated, the Power IC922 supports up to six NVIDIA® T4 Tensor Core GPU accelerators.
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The Power IC922 server is built to deliver powerful computing, scaling efficiency, and storage capacity in a cost-optimized design to meet the evolving data challenges of the AI era, and include the following features:
- High throughput and performance for high-value Linux workloads, such as inferencing data or storage rich workloads, or cloud
- Potentially low acquisition cost through system optimization such as utilizing industry standard memory and warranty
- Two IBM POWER9 processor single-chip module (SCM) devices that provide high performance with 24, 32, or 40 fully activated cores and maximum 2 TB of memory
- Up to six NVIDIA T4 GPU accelerators
- Up to 24 2.5 inch SAS/SATA drives
- One dedicated and one shared 1 Gb Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) port.
IBM Power System AC922
IBM Power System AC922 server (8335-GTH and 8335-GTX models) is the next generation of the IBM POWER® processor-based systems, which are designed for deep learning (DL) and artificial intelligence (AI), high-performance analytics, and high-performance computing (HPC).
This paper introduces the major innovative Power AC922 server features and their relevant functions:
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- Powerful IBM POWER9™ processors that offer up to 22 cores at up to 2.80 GHz (3.10 GHz turbo) performance with up to 2 TB of memory.
- IBM Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) 2.0, IBM OpenCAPI™, and second-generation NVIDIA NVLink 2.0 technology for exceptional processor to accelerator intercommunication.
- Up to six dedicated NVIDIA Tesla V100 graphics processing units (GPUs).
Scale-out AIX, IBM i and Linux servers
Power Systems are focused on reliability and performance. The updated scale-out servers use IBM POWER9 processor-based technology, which is a technology that is designed for data-intensive workloads, such as operational databases, advanced analytics, and business applications.
The new IBM Power Systems scale-out servers, which are powered by PCIe Gen4 switches, deliver seamless and lightspeed throughput I/O among multiple on-premises and public clouds applications, and cloud-like agility and economics by supporting IBM Power Enterprise Pools 2.0.
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- Gain faster insights from your data with up to 4 TB of in-memory database capabilities for SAP HANA, IBM Db2(R), Oracle, and a variety of open-source databases in the Power S924 and Power S922 systems.
- Use this cloud-enabled server to build an agile, containerized cloud on a server platform that is optimized for data and cognitive services
- Has twice the bandwidth for seamless integration between on-premises and public clouds with a new back-end PCIe Gen4 switch.
- Introduces Shared Utility Capacity for pay-per-use computing and multisystem resource sharing through IBM Power Enterprise Pools 2.0.
- Has more NVMe adapters with ten PCIe Gen4 slots in the back plus four PCI Gen4-capable U.2 front-accessible drives.
The Power S922 system has a new 1-core option as a low-cost option for IBM i clients:
- New cost-effective 800 GB data center PCIe Gen3 NVMe device that is supported for AIX, IBM VIOS, or Linux environments.
- You can boot from PCIe Gen4 NVMe devices that are supported for native IBM i deployments.