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IBM Publishes Power10 Performance Optimize Guide

December 7, 2022 Alex Woodie

IBM i shops looking to squeeze the most performance out of their Power10 servers have a lot of options available at their disposal. IBM covers many, if not all, of them in its latest performance paper, titled “IBM Power10 performance optimization for IBM i,” which it released last week.

The Power10 is the most powerful processor IBM ever built. Compared to the Power9 processor, the Power10 delivers 20 percent to 30 percent higher performance per core. And with 25 percent more cores per socket, that means oodles of more processing power to do useful work.

At a system level, the …
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IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 20, Number 37

September 19, 2018 Doug Bidwell

The Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution vulnerabilities are the gift that keeps on giving in terms of security worries and hurried patches, and this week in the IBM i PTF Guide is yet another demonstration of this fact.

See this link for full details on the new fixes, and check the tab in the Guide for SpectreMeltdown, which is new new.

There are new fixes for PEX and Job Watcher on V7R3, check here for details.

The Tech Refreshes are out, finally, for V7R3 and V7R2. Check the TR tab in the Guide for further information.

Links this week: …
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