Dates

1. Announcement 7 August for both E950 & E980
2. 17 August: E950 Generally Available (GA) that is shipping to clients
3. 21 September: E980 2 nodes=  96 core GA
4. 16 November: E980 4 nodes=192 core GA

Quick Summery for Techies

  Link to Power Virtual User Group two 90-minutes Webinars on E950 and E980 

Find the Power Virtual User Group here: Power-vug-technical-webinar-series

• Host: Jyoti Dodhia, IBM
• Speaker: Nigel Griffiths, IBM
• Two Webinars:  Enterprise E950 on 8 August 2018 and Enterprise E980 on 9 August 2018
  • POWER9 Enterprise E950 Unofficial Deep Dive for Techies
  • POWER9 Enterprise E950 First Look at a Early Ship Program Server
  • POWER9 Enterprise E980 Unofficial Deep Dive for Techies
  • POWER9 Enterprise E980 First Look at a Early Ship Program Server

Download Nigel Griffiths' Unofficial PowerPoint Slides from the above POWER VUG sessions

• Take the link to download file:  POWER9_Enterprise_E950_E980_Powerpoint.zip
• Thus is a Zip file containing the four presentations at a higher resolution pictures than in presentations on the web
• Approximately 400 slides in total
• Size ~150MB in total
• You can use the slides in any way you like to promote POWER9 Enterprise Servers
• Feel free to put your name on the first slide, delete, summarise, pass-on, study further or use the detailed pictures yourself.
• Note these slides are not IBM official charts nor IBM statements as they are Nigel Griffiths' person decks and the opinions are his alone.
• Correction: The Enterprise E980 Warranty depends on your country:
  • Some countries have 1 Year + Same Day 24x7  support.
  • Other countries have 1 Year plus 2 years of extended Support + Business Day 24x7 support.
• Correction: The Enterprise E980 performance jump
  • When calculated with the final rPerf numbers in the official Performance Report the 
    POWER8 E880C to POWER9 E980 top rPerf is a 38% jump (was reported in these slides as 30%).
  • The E880C rPerf went down due to the Spectre and Meltdown recalculation as everyone must have the fixes installed by now.
    The POWER9 rPerf's all assume the fixes are installed and active.
  • Unchanged: E950 got 42%.

Nigel's Shorter YouTube Videos

• Each Video is under 10 minutes
• POWER9 Enterprise E950 Fast Facts - https://youtu.be/fclBcAFjfRE 
• 
• POWER9 Enterprise E950 First "live" Look - https://youtu.be/INwV9jt6av8
• 
• POWER9 Enterprise E980 Fast Facts - https://youtu.be/djtqJ4P3OnU
• 
• POWER9 Enterprise E980 First "live" Look - https://youtu.be/PwJjMMdIWWU
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IBM RedBooks on POWER9 Servers

• Link to the POWER9 Enterprise E950 RedBook
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• Link to the POWER9 Enterprise E980 RedBook
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POWER9 Performance Report

• Includes the Enterprise E950 and E990 Performance stats like rPerfs and CPW plus the stats of the past generations.
• Download website https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?htmlfid=POO03017USEN&
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Data sheets:

• Good quick summary of the key facts.

POWER9 Server Family Overview

• 10 pages about the POWER9 Server Range with some details
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POWER9 Scale-Up Servers Marketing 

• Link to the Announcement Blog
• Only 3 screens long and pleasant use of white space for style!
• 

POWER® Processor-Based Systems RAS

• Link to the white paper 
• 66 pages of detail and tables for the POWER9 range of Servers including E950 and E980