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The Ins And Outs Of IBM’s Power9 ZZ Systems

February 15, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

It has taken nearly four years for the low end, workhorse machines in IBM’s Power Systems line to be updated, and the long awaited Power9 processors and the shiny new “ZZ” systems have been unveiled. …

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A First Look At IBM’s Power9 ZZ Systems

February 13, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

The HPC crowd got a little taste of the IBM’s “Nimbus” Power9 processors for scale out systems, juiced by Nvidia “Volta” Tesla GPU accelerators, last December with the Power AC922 system that is the basis of the “Summit” and “Sierra” pre-exascale supercomputers being built by Big Blue for the US Department of Energy. …

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