
32 Power Systems Enterprise Servers with PowerVM Virtualization and RAS
A Power 780 system needing sixteen cores and packaged in a single drawer as in
Figure 2-16 on page 31 requires two drawers when using TurboCore.
Another effect, though, stems from the fact that chip crossings introduce extra time for storage
accesses. For the same number of cores, there are often more chips required with
TurboCore. So, more chips often imply a higher probability of longer latency for storage
accesses. The performance chapter, in 7.2.4, “MaxCore and TurboCore modes” on page 254,
addresses the performance effects of using TurboCore mode versus MaxCore mode. ...