Power8 Iron Gets New I/O Options
June 1, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan
As part of the rollout of slightly faster processors for the entry Power8 processors and the fleshing out of the high-end of the Power Systems line a month ago, IBM rolled out a bunch of new peripheral features and a new set of peripheral expansion units that will allow for Power8 shops both high and low to expand the amount of PCI-Express 3.0 peripherals that companies can attach to their systems than is currently possible on these machines. Such I/O and storage expansion is important, given the ever-increasing amount of compute and memory that is being put into ever-smaller system |