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Adam Kunk Anil John Pete Bohman. UIUC - CS 433 IBM Power7. Quick Facts. Released by IBM in 2010 (~ February) Successor of the Power6 Clock Rate: 2.4 GHz - 4.25 GHz Feature size: 45 nm ISA: Power ISA v 2.06 Cores: 4, 6, 8 Cache: L1, L2, L3. Why the Power7?.
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Adam Kunk Anil John Pete Bohman UIUC - CS 433 IBM Power7
Quick Facts • Released by IBM in 2010 (~ February) • Successor of the Power6 • Clock Rate: 2.4 GHz - 4.25 GHz • Feature size: 45 nm • ISA: Power ISA v 2.06 • Cores: 4, 6, 8 • Cache: L1, L2, L3 References: [1]
Why the Power7? • PERCS – Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computer System • DARPA funded contract that IBM won in order to develop the Power7 ($244 million contract, 2006) • Contract was to develop a petascale supercomputer architecture before 2011 in the HPCS (High Performance Computing Systems) project. • IBM, Cray, and Sun Microsystems received HPCS grant for Phase II. • IBM was chosen for Phase III in 2006. References: [1], [2]
Blue Waters • Side note: • The Blue Waters system was meant to be the first supercomputer using PERCS technology. • But, the contract was cancelled (cost and complexity).
References • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER7 • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PERCS