IBM POWER processors

GPTKB entity

Statements (67)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:microprocessor
gptkbp:architecture gptkb:RISC
gptkbp:competitor gptkb:SPARC
gptkb:AMD_EPYC
gptkb:Intel_Xeon
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label IBM POWER processors
gptkbp:instructionSet gptkb:Power_ISA
gptkb:POWER_ISA
gptkb:PowerPC_ISA
gptkbp:introducedIn 1990
gptkbp:manufacturer gptkb:IBM
gptkbp:notableFeature energy efficiency
scalability
multi-threading
high reliability
large cache sizes
high memory bandwidth
hardware virtualization
RAS features
endian flexibility
hardware transactional memory
simultaneous multithreading
Linux support
support for cloud computing
support for SAP HANA
support for Oracle Database
support for AI workloads
NVLink support
support for mission-critical workloads
NUMA support
support for secure boot
AI acceleration (POWER10)
AIX support
CAPI support
IBM i support
OpenCAPI support
PCIe Gen5 support (POWER10)
chiplet design (POWER10)
open ecosystem (OpenPOWER Foundation)
support for containerization
support for large address spaces
support for memory encryption
vector processing (VSX)
gptkbp:notableModel gptkb:POWER9
gptkb:POWER10
gptkb:POWER6
gptkb:POWER8
gptkb:POWER7
gptkb:POWER1
gptkb:POWER2
gptkb:POWER3
gptkb:POWER4
gptkb:POWER5
gptkbp:standardizedBy gptkb:OpenPOWER
gptkbp:successor gptkb:IBM_801
gptkbp:supports big-endian
little-endian
gptkbp:usedBy gptkb:Summit_supercomputer
gptkb:IBM_Power_Systems
gptkb:Sierra_supercomputer
gptkbp:usedIn gptkb:IBM_servers
supercomputers
workstations
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:IBM_AltiVec
gptkb:Simultaneous_Multithreading_(SMT)
gptkb:AltiVec_SIMD_unit
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6