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Drilling Down Into The Power E980

August 20, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

On August 7, IBM announced the two machines that are based on the “Cumulus” scale-up versions of the Power9 processors – the Power E950 midrange box that scales up to four sockets and the Power E980 big iron machine that scales up to 16 sockets. The IBM i platform is not available on the Power E950, so IBM i customers who need more than a two-socket Power9 machine to support their workloads have to make a jump to a single-node implementation of the Power E980.

This is the same situation that customers faced during the Power8 era, so it is …
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IBM i Gets The Big Power9 Iron, But Not The Midrange

August 15, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

First of all, let me apologize for not getting to this story last week, but I had a bunch of personal stuff going on and frankly, it is still going on. To eliminate the mystery, I will tell you the big part, which is that I was preparing to get married, then got married, and then tried to take a short honeymoon out in the mountains, and I did not expect for IBM to try to announce the last of the Power9 servers smack dab in the middle of all that.

But on August 7, IBM did just that. For …
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