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August 24, 2010
Newest Server From IBM Boasts 256-Cores
By Bryan Young
IBM has rolled out it's largest Unix server to date with the new Power 795. It is designed for companies with large-scale database applications or who want to integrate several Unix/Linux systems into one large virtualized system.

The Power 795 is a beast of a system, with up to 8 TB of main memory and eight processor "books". Each of IBM's "books" contains four Power7 processor chips, while each chip holds six or eight processor cores. Each also has 32 memory DIMM slots, four I/O ports, and two service processors. Right now, the Power 795 system can be split into 254 separate partitions. IBM says it hopes to increase that number to 1,000 by next year, with little or no need for customers to do anything more than a simple firmware update.

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