IBM POWER Processors
The cluster focuses on discussions about IBM's POWER architecture, including its performance, current usage in servers and HPC, ongoing development like POWER9 and POWER10, market relevance, and OpenPOWER variants.
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Wasn't IBM's POWER in this range already?
It is what powers (hehe) many IBM servers,https://www.ibm.com/products/power
Didn't IBM do this with Power6?
No one interested in Power8 CPU?
Is IBM POWER the modern day Cray?
From what I've read, the latest POWER9 servers from IBM are very competitive (on performance, not necessarily price). Newer chips that run PPC ISA support ppc64el (little-endian mode) so that porting software is significantly easier. gcc has a mature backend for this instruction set so it's a simple recompile in many cases on Linux.PPC machines are also required if for some reason you're still running AIX, IIRC.
IBM is actively investing in POWER though
Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_POWER_microprocessorsThey're definitely good. They're what the Blackbird and FSF-RYF-certified Talos use: https://www.raptorcs.com/content/base/products.htmlAnd they have another architectu
How many companies buy POWER hardware?
IBM POWER is still Altivec afaik at least that's what my P9 is using