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Wednesday 5 March 2014

POWER Chip



POWER is a Reduced Instruction Set Computer  (RISC) based processor build with  Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is developed by IBM. The abbreviation of POWER is Performance Optimized With Enhanced RISC.

Quick Comparison on POWER chip roadmap

 Source: Wikipedia

IBM is about to release POWER8 shortly and here are the highlights and comparison over its predecessor:


Highlights

  • IBM claims that POWER8 is 3 times faster than its predecessors POWER7 and POWER7+
  • Capable to run 96 threads simultaneously  (with 12 cores and 8 SMT per core)
  • Possibility of IBM to form an OpenPOWER consortium with key vendors like google, Nvidia, Mellanox etc.,
  • Heard IBM stating that no further increase in processor clock speed in new processor - however, rumors out there on improved clock speed.
  • Official release of POWER8 - date unknown/undisclosed

 POWER8 Processor Features & Architecture

 

Comparing POWER8 with its Predecessor


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AIX


AIX

IBM AIX is a flavour of UNIX System V release and is developed by IBM to support its POWER series hardware. AIX stands for Advanced Interactive eXecutive.

AIX is a hardware (POWER - Performance Optimized With Enhanced RISC ) dependent operating environment and cannot be installed on any third-party hardwares. With robust computing capability and RISC architecture makes AIX an high performing, reliable and evolving operating enviornment to host production applications.

OS Version and Support/Release dates:


  • AIX v7.1        -  Sep 10, 2010    -      Current
  • AIX v6.1        -  Nov 9, 2007     -      Current
  • AIX 5L v5.3  -  Aug 13, 2004    -      End of support 30 Apr 2012
  • AIX 5L v5.2  -  Oct 18, 2002     -      End of support 30 Apr, 2009
  • AIX 5L v5.1  -  May 4, 2001     -       End of support 1 Apr, 2006
  • AIX v4.3.3, Sep 17, 1999
  • AIX v4.3.2, October 23, 1998
  • AIX v4.3.1, April 24, 1998
  • AIX v4.3, October 31, 1997
  • AIX v4.2.1, April 25, 1997
  • AIX v4.2, May 17, 1996
  • AIX v4.1.5, November 8, 1996
  • AIX v4.1.4, October 20, 1995
  • AIX v4.1.3, July 7, 1995
  • AIX v4.1.1, October 28, 1994
  • AIX v4.1, August 12, 1994
  • AIX v4.0, 1994
  • AIX v3.2 1992
  • AIX v3.1, February 1990
  • AIX v3.0 1989
  • AIX PS/2 v1.3, 1992
  • AIX PS/2 v1.1, 1989
  • AIX v2.0 
  • AIX v1.0, 1986
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