POWER7

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POWER7 is a microprocessor currently under development at IBM's Rochester, Austin and Böblingen laboratories as of April 2006. The POWER7 is the successor to POWER6.

It will be high performance, planned 10x the performance of the POWER5, with advanced core design and system features like workload accelerators and highly threaded cores.

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IBM won a $244 million DARPA contract in November 2006 to develop a multi-petaFLOPS supercomputer architecture before the end of 2010. The contract also states that the architecture shall be available commercially. IBM's proposal, PERCS(Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computer System), which won them the contract, is based on the POWER7 processor, AIX operating system and General Parallel File System.[1]

Although it has been suggested that POWER7 and future AMD Opteron processors will share CPU socket layout, that convergence has never been confirmed by either IBM or AMD.[2][3]

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  1. ^ Cray, IBM picked for U.S. petaflop computer effort. EETimes.com. Retrieved on 2006-11-22.
  2. ^ IBM Power 7 to be Opteron socket compatible. The Inquirer. Retrieved on 2007-03-25.
  3. ^ IBM's Power7 chip going into Opteron motherboards. The Register. Retrieved on 2006-08-26.

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