IBM POWER7 Performance

IBM's new POWER7 systems are built for performance, managing millions of transactions in real time and analysing the associated volumes of data typical of emerging applications. POWER7 systems offer industry-leading return on investment though dramatic improvements in price/performance, energy savings and virtualisation for server consolidation.

IBM POWER7 delivers 4.5x – 7.5x performance per core than competing systems across major benchmarks, with the highest SAP performance and scalability ever and record breaking 64-core Java performance

Application performance leadership across SAP BI, Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and Oracle eBS r12

Best results listed for IBM POWER, HP, and Sun/Oracle systems over 1M tpmC.
Source: http://www.tpc.org as of 4/1/08. See Power 780 benchmark details for specific results.

• Featuring an innovative multi-core, 45 nanometer design, running at speeds of up to over 4.1 GHz, with up to 8-cores per socket, and four threads per core, POWER7 systems combined with IBM systems software, middleware and storage deliver unprecedented performance for both transactional and throughput computing
• To achieve maximum performance for both the system and its virtual machines, POWER7 processor-based systems are designed with workload optimising technologies. Intelligent Threads technology dynamically switches the processor threading mode to deliver optimal performance for different workloads. The TurboCore™ option optimises the system for frequency and cache utilisation delivering the maximum per core performance for database and transaction workloads. Active Memory™ Expansion helps reduce memory costs by enabling physical memory to be logically expanded up to 100 percent for some workloads – such as SAP
• IBM Power™ servers lead rival vendors in performance in high-end systems, in midrange systems, in entry systems, and in blade systems, leading all the categories. This leadership performance of the POWER7™ processor makes it possible for applications to run faster
• On the SAP SD 2- tier benchmark the Power 750 Express delivers:
  
  
  • More than 3 times the performance than the leading rival and four times better performance per watt
  • More SAP performance than any other 8-socket server in the industry
  • Over 15,600 SAP SD 2-Tier users on IBM Power 750 Express and over 37,000 users on Power 780
    with DB2
    
    
• Record breaking TPC performance per core, with more than any system in the industry
  

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