IBM POWER9 Enterprise Servers E950 & E980 have been publicly announced.

Here is your starter pack:

Dates

1. Announcement August 7th for both E950 & E980
2. 17th August  - E950 Generally Available (GA)  i.e. shipping to clients
3. 21st September - E980 2 nodes=  96 core GA
4. 16th November - E980 4 nodes=192 core GA

Quick Summery for Techies

Power Virtual User Group two 90 minutes Webinars on E950 and E980 

Find the Power Virtual User Group here: http://tinyurl.com/PowerVUG

• Host: Jyoti Dodhia, IBM
• Speaker: Nigel Griffiths, IBM
• Two Webinars:  Enterprise E950 on 8th August 2018 and Enterprise E980 on 9th August 2018

1. POWER9 Enterprise E950 Unofficial Deep Dive for Techies
2. POWER9 Enterprise E950 First Look at a Early Ship Program Server
3. POWER9 Enterprise E980 Unofficial Deep Dive for Techies
4. POWER9 Enterprise E980 First Look at a Early Ship Program Server

Access

• PDF - On the VUG website find about 150 slides used for each Webinar in .PDF format
  • http://tinyurl.com/PowerVUG
• MP4 replay - On the VUG website find the Replay recordings in .mp4  The two Replays are roughly 90 minutes long each
  • http://tinyurl.com/PowerVUG
• YouTube replay - On YouTube find the videos for online watching  The two Replays are roughly 90 minutes long each
  • http://www.bit.ly/VUGReplaysSessions 

Download Nigel Griffiths' Unofficial PowerPoint Slides from the above POWER VUG sessions

• Take the link to download file: POWER9_Enterprise_E950_E980_Powerpoint.zip  
• This is a Zip file containing the four presentations at a higher resolution than those presentation on the web
• Approximately 400 slides in total
• Size ~150MB in total
• You can use the slides in any way you like to promote POWER9 Enterprise Servers
• Feel free to put your name on the first slide, delete, summarise, pass-on, study further or use the detailed pictures yourself.
• Note these are not IBM official charts nor IBM statements as these are Nigel Griffiths' person decks and the opinions are his alone.
• Correction: The Enterprise E980 Warranty depends on your country:
  • Some countries have 1 Year + Same Day 24x7  support.
  • Other countries have 1 Year plus 2 years extended Support + Business Day 24x7 support.
  • This is not stated in the announcements so you have to ask your local IBM representative.
• Correction: The Enterprise E980 performance jump
  • When calculated with the final rPerf numbers in the official Performance Report the 
    POWER8 E880C to POWER9 E980 top rPerf is a 38% jump (was reported in these slides as 30%).
  • The E880C rPerf went down due to the Spectre/Meltdown recalculation as every one should have these fixes installed by now.
    Th POWER9 rPerf's all assume the fixes are installed and active.
  • Unchanged: E950 got 42%.

Nigel's Shorter YouTube Videos

• Each Video is under 10 minutes
• POWER9 Enterprise E950 Fast Facts - https://youtu.be/fclBcAFjfRE 
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• POWER9 Enterprise E950 First "live" Look - https://youtu.be/INwV9jt6av8
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• POWER9 Enterprise E980 Fast Facts - https://youtu.be/djtqJ4P3OnU
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• POWER9 Enterprise E980 First "live" Look - https://youtu.be/PwJjMMdIWWU
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IBM RedBooks on POWER9 Servers

• Link to the POWER9 Enterprise E950 RedBook
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• Link to the POWER9 Enterprise E980 RedBook
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• Find all the other POWER9 Servers like
  • AC922 (the one with the GPUs),
  • S922 and S924 (the Scale-out Servers) and
  • LC922 (POWER9 Linux Servers at x86_64 prices) 
  • Click HERE

Announcement Letter:

• POWER9 Enterprise 950: Letter Link and PDF
• POWER9 Enterprise 980: Letter Link and PDF

POWER9 Performance Report

• Includes the Enterprise E950 and E990 Performance stats like rPerfs and CPW plus those of the past generations.
• Download website https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?htmlfid=POO03017USEN&
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Data Sheets:

• Good quick summary of the key facts.

1. Link to the IBM Power System E950 datasheet
2. Link to the IBM Power System E980 datasheet

POWER9 Server Family Overview

• 10 pages covering the POWER9 Server Range with some details
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POWER9 Scale-Up Servers Marketing 

• Link to the Announcement Blog
• Only 3 screens long and very pleasant use of white space for style !
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POWER® Processor-Based Systems RAS

• Link to the Whitepaper 
• 66 pages of detail and tables for the POWER9 range of Servers including E950 and E980
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