POWER7
Sign in to savePOWER7 is a family of superscalar multi-core microprocessors based on the Power ISA 2.06 instruction set architecture released in 2010 that succeeded the POWER6 and POWER6+. POWER7 was developed by IBM at several sites including IBM's Rochester, MN; Austin, TX; Essex Junction, VT; T. J. Watson Research Center, NY; Bromont, QC and IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH, Böblingen, Germany laboratories. IBM announced servers based on POWER7 on 8 February 2010. thumb|IBM Power7 4 GHz 8-way CPU and IHS from an IBM 9119 thumb|IBM Power7 4 GHz 8-way CPU IHS top from an IBM 9119 thumb|
Key facts
- CPU.name
- POWER7
- CPU.image
- Power7 4ghz 9119 8way chipTop sonic84 IMG 1422.jpg
- CPU.caption
- IBM Power7 4 GHz 8-way CPU (de-lidded) from an IBM 9119
- CPU.produced start
- 2010
- CPU.slowest
- 2.4
- CPU.slow unit
- GHz
- CPU.fastest
- 4.25
- CPU.fast unit
- GHz
- CPU.size from
- 45 nm
- CPU.designfirm
- IBM
- CPU.arch
- Power ISA (Power ISA v.2.06)
- CPU.numcores
- 4, 6, 8
- CPU.l1cache
- 32+32 KB/core
- CPU.l2cache
- 256 KB/core
- CPU.l3cache
- 4 MB/core
- CPU.predecessor
- POWER6
- CPU.successor
- POWER8
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Design
- Specifications
- POWER7+
- Products
- See also
- References
- External links
POWER7 is a family of superscalar multi-core microprocessors based on the Power ISA 2.06 instruction set architecture released in 2010 that succeeded the POWER6 and POWER6+. POWER7 was developed by IBM at several sites including IBM's Rochester, MN; Austin, TX; Essex Junction, VT; T. J. Watson Research Center, NY; Bromont, QC and IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH, Böblingen, Germany laboratories. IBM announced servers based on POWER7 on 8 February 2010. thumb|IBM Power7 4 GHz 8-way CPU and IHS from an IBM 9119 thumb|IBM Power7 4 GHz 8-way CPU IHS top from an IBM 9119 thumb|IBM Power7 4 GHz 8-way CPU bottom from an IBM 9119 thumb|IBM Power7 4 GHz 8-way CPU removable interposer from an IBM 9119
== History == IBM won a $244 million DARPA contract in November 2006 to develop a petascale supercomputer architecture before the end of 2010 in the HPCS project. The contract also states that the architecture shall be available commercially. IBM's proposal, PERCS (Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computer System), which won them the contract, is based on the POWER7 processor, AIX operating system and General Parallel File System.
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