General description
This chapter provides a general description of the new IBM Power Systems E980 (9080-M9S) server, which is a logical follow-on to the IBM Power Systems E880 and E880C servers. Due to the new POWER9 architecture, the Power E980 server provides improvements in economics of application delivery and IT services through increased price/performance that is based on increased throughput, reduced response times, and increased memory and I/O bandwidth.
Figure 1-1 shows an exploded view of a Power E980 system node.
Figure 1-1 An exploded ...