IBM Power System E950: Technical Overview and Introduction

• The IBM POWER9TM processor, which is available at frequencies of 2.8 - 3.4 GHz.
  
• Significantly strengthened cores and larger caches.
  
• Supports up to 16 TB of memory, which is four times more than the IBM POWER8® processor-based IBM Power System E850 server.
  
• Integrated I/O subsystem and hot-pluggable Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) Gen4 slots, which have double the bandwidth of Gen3 I/O slots.
  
• Supports EXP12SX and ESP24SX external disk drawers, which have 12 Gb Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interfaces and support Active Optical Cables (AOCs) for greater distances and less cable bulk.
  
• New IBM EnergyScaleTM technology offers new variable processor frequency modes that provide a significant performance boost beyond the static nominal frequency.
  

• Clients
  
• Sales and marketing professionals
  
• Technical support professionals
  
• IBM Business Partners
  
• Independent software vendors (ISVs)
  

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