IBM Power7 4 GHz 8-way CPU (de-lidded) from an IBM 9119
General information
Launched
2010
Designed by
IBM
Performance
Max. CPU clock rate
2.4 GHz to 4.25 GHz
Cache
L1 cache
32+32 KB/core
L2 cache
256 KB/core
L3 cache
4 MB/core
Architecture and classification
Technology node
45 nm
Instruction set
Power ISA (Power ISA v.2.06)
Physical specifications
Cores
4, 6, 8
History
Predecessor(s)
POWER6
Successor(s)
POWER8
POWER, PowerPC, and Power ISA architectures
NXP (formerly Freescale and Motorola)
PowerPC e series (2006)
e200
e300
e500
e600
e5500
e6500
Qor series (2008)
QorIQ
Qorivva
IBM
Power series (1990)
POWER1
POWER2
POWER3
POWER4
POWER5
POWER6
POWER7
POWER8
POWER9
Power10
PowerPC series (1992)
6xx
4xx
7xx
74xx
970
A2 (2010)
A2I
A2O
RAD series (1997)
RAD6000
RAD750
RAD5500
RS64 series (1996)
IBM/Nintendo
Gekko
Broadway
Espresso
Other
Titan
PWRficient
Cell
Xenon
X704
Related links
OpenPOWER Foundation
AIM alliance
RISC
Blue Gene
Power.org
PAPR
PReP
CHRP
AltiVec
Cancelled in gray, historic in italic
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POWER7 is a family of superscalar multi-core microprocessors based on the Power ISA 2.06 instruction set architecture released in 2010 that succeeded the POWER6 and POWER6+. POWER7 was developed by IBM at several sites including IBM's Rochester, MN; Austin, TX; Essex Junction, VT; T. J. Watson Research Center, NY; Bromont, QC[1] and IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH, Böblingen, Germany laboratories. IBM announced servers based on POWER7 on 8 February 2010.[2][3]
IBM Power7 4 GHz 8-way CPU and IHS from an IBM 9119IBM Power7 4 GHz 8-way CPU IHS top from an IBM 9119IBM Power7 4 GHz 8-way CPU bottom from an IBM 9119IBM Power7 4 GHz 8-way CPU removable interposer from an IBM 9119
^Authier, Isabelle (17 February 2011). "IBM Bromont au coeur de Watson" [IBM Bromont at the heart of Watson]. Cyberpresse (in French). Archived from the original on 19 February 2011. Retrieved 17 February 2011.
^"IBM Unveils New POWER7 Systems To Manage Increasingly Data-Intensive Services". IBM. 8 February 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
^"New POWER7 workload optimizing systems". YouTube. IBM. 5 February 2010. Archived from the original on 8 February 2011. Retrieved 22 February 2010.
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AltiVec. Even while the POWER7 run at lower frequencies than POWER6, each POWER7 core performs faster than its POWER6 counterpart. POWER7 – Comes in single-chip...
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remote 30 ns, each region 8-way associative, DRAM data array, SRAM tag array POWER7 Intel Broadwell Microarchitecture Intel Kaby Lake Microarchitecture CPU...
company's POWER7-based systems. Unlike servers built on the Intel Xeon processor, an x86 descendant with two threads per core, the POWER7 processor provides...
Power Virtualization (APV), is a chargeable feature of IBM POWER5, POWER6, POWER7, POWER8, POWER9 and Power10 servers and is required for support of micro-partitions...
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chip is said to perform two to three times as fast as its predecessor, the POWER7. POWER8 chips comes in 6- or 12-core variants; each version is fabricated...
each of which uses a 3.5GHz POWER7 eight-core processor, with four threads per core. In total, the system uses 2,880 POWER7 processor threads and 16 terabytes...
for regular floating point, decimal floating point and vector execution. POWER7 is the first Power ISA processor to implement Power ISA v2.06. New instructions...
July 2010. It is based on Power ISA v.2.05 and includes extensions for the POWER7 processor and e500-mc core. One significant new feature is vector-scalar...
V. Paruthi, B. Brock, "Functional verification of the IBM POWER7 microprocessor and POWER7 multiprocessor systems", IBM Journal of Research and Development...
with other SUSE Linux Enterprise products. IBM's Watson was built on IBM's POWER7 systems using SLES. Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Frontier, world's first...
The last non-Linux computers on the list – the two AIX ones – running on POWER7 (in July 2017 ranked 494th and 495th, originally 86th and 85th), dropped...
page table access to support global petabyte shared memory space for AIX POWER7 clusters so that software developers can program a cluster as if it were...
processors, housed in a 42U rack W1700-96 through to W1700-608, using IBM POWER7+ processors, housed in a 42U rack PureData Systems takes the approach of...
released in 2012 Dual 2-, 4-, 8- or 16-core POWER7-based controllers (Since December 2013 based on POWER7+) Running SMT-4 for 64 threads 1 TiB Cache Can...
computer architectures, focusing on GPU systems and computers using the POWER7 processor. The original developer was Terra Soft Solutions, which was acquired...
Dino; et al. (30 September 2016). "Workload Optimized Systems: Tuning POWER7 for Analytics". Abstract. "Statistical Product and Service Solutions (SPSS)...
the formerly crypto-centric Nest accelerator (NX) core introduced with POWER7+. This support is available to programs running with AIX 7.2 Technology...
available hardware multithreading. In 2010, IBM released systems based on the POWER7 processor with eight cores with each having four Simultaneous Intelligent...
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