Preface
This IBM® Redpaper publication provides a broad understanding of a new architecture of the IBM Power System E980 (9080-M9S) server that supports IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux operating systems (OSes). The objective of this paper is to introduce the major innovative Power E980 offerings and relevant functions:
•The IBM POWER9™ processor, which is available at frequencies of 3.55 - 4.0 GHz.
•Significantly strengthened cores and larger caches.
•Supports up to 64 TB memory.
•Integrated I/O subsystem and hot-pluggable Peripheral Component Interconnect® Express (PCIe) Gen4 slots, double the bandwidth of Gen3 I/O slots.
•Supports EXP12SX and ESP24SX external disk drawers, which have 12 Gb SAS interfaces and double the existing EXP24S drawer bandwidth. ...