The POWER8<sup>TM</sup> processor: Designed for big data, analytics, and cloud environments

Joshua Friedrich, H. Q. Le, William J. Starke, Jeff Stuechli, Balaram Sinharoy, Eric Fluhr, Daniel Dreps, Victor Zyuban, Gregory Still, Christopher González,

2014 · 15 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

POWER8™ delivers a data-optimized design suited for analytics, cognitive workloads, and today's exploding data sizes. The design point results in a 2.5x performance gain over its predecessor, POWER7+™, for many workloads. In addition, POWER8 delivers the efficiency demanded by cloud computing models and also represents a first step toward creating an open ecosystem for server innovation.

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