Specifications

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Chapter 1. General description

The IBM Power System S822 (8284-22A) server uses the latest POWER8 processor

technology that is designed to deliver unprecedented performance, scalability, reliability, and

manageability for demanding commercial workloads.

This server brings together business transaction processing with infrastructure for social and

mobile solutions in UNIX and Linux operating environments. Based on POWER8 processors,

this server delivers two times the throughput of Intel based offerings for comparable

workloads and provides superior economics for scale-out deployments.

The IBM Power S822 server for existing customers is designed to put data to work. With a

strong commitment to optimizing AIX workloads, this system delivers better performance than

the prior generation of systems and offers unmatched price and performance value for

integrated Linux applications.

The one or two socket server provide the ideal foundation for private and public cloud

infrastructure. The Power S822 is available in 6-core, 10-core, 12-core, and 20-core

configurations and supports new I/O capabilities, including Coherent Accelerator Processor

Interface (CAPI) accelerators, higher internal disk and SSD capacities, and hot plug PCIe

Gen3 slots. The highly secure architecture provides a stable database and middleware

platform for efficient deployment of business processing applications.

1.1 Systems overview

The following sections provide detailed information about the Power S822 system.

1.1.1 IBM Power S822 server

The Power S822 (8284-22A) server offers greater performance per core and per socket with

POWER8 processors, new I/O capabilities, higher internal storage and PCIe capacities and

performance, the capability to support CAPI accelerator devices, and greater reliability,

availability, and serviceability (RAS), including hot-plug PCIe capability.