Here is your starter pack for information on Power Systems Enterprise E950 and E980
Dates
- Announcement 7 August for both E950 & E980
- 17 August: E950 Generally Available (GA) that is shipping to clients
- 21 September: E980 2 nodes= 96 core GA
- 16 November: E980 4 nodes=192 core GA
Quick Summery for Techies
Link to Power Virtual User Group two 90-minutes Webinars on E950 and E980
Find the Power Virtual User Group here: Power-vug-technical-webinar-series
- Host: Jyoti Dodhia, IBM
- Speaker: Nigel Griffiths, IBM
- Two Webinars: Enterprise E950 on 8 August 2018 and Enterprise E980 on 9 August 2018
- POWER9 Enterprise E950 Unofficial Deep Dive for Techies
- POWER9 Enterprise E950 First Look at a Early Ship Program Server
- POWER9 Enterprise E980 Unofficial Deep Dive for Techies
- POWER9 Enterprise E980 First Look at a Early Ship Program Server
Download Nigel Griffiths' Unofficial PowerPoint Slides from the above POWER VUG sessions
- Take the link to download file: POWER9_Enterprise_E950_E980_Powerpoint.zip
- Thus is a Zip file containing the four presentations at a higher resolution pictures than in presentations 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 slides are not IBM official charts nor IBM statements as they 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 of extended Support + Business Day 24x7 support.
- 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 and Meltdown recalculation as everyone must have the fixes installed by now.
The POWER9 rPerf's all assume the fixes are installed and active.
- Unchanged: E950 got 42%.
Nigel's Shorter YouTube Videos
IBM RedBooks on POWER9 Servers
POWER9 Performance Report
Data sheets:
- Good quick summary of the key facts.
POWER9 Server Family Overview
POWER9 Scale-Up Servers Marketing
- Link to the Announcement Blog
- Only 3 screens long and pleasant use of white space for style!
POWER® Processor-Based Systems RAS
- Link to the white paper
- 66 pages of detail and tables for the POWER9 range of Servers including E950 and E980
Other places to find content from Nigel Griffiths IBM (retired)
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