Power Architecture is a CPU architecture derived from the IBM POWER1 CPU, not to be confused with the Power ISA. The most recent release is POWER8, with POWER9 slated for release in 2017.
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How many NUMA nodes on a Power8 processor
I am using Ubuntu 15.04 on a two sockets Power8 machine, each socket has 10 cores. "numactl -H" outputs:
available: 4 nodes (0-3)
node 0 cpus: 0 8 16 24 32
node 0 size: 30359 MB
node 0 free: 26501 MB
node 1 cpus: 40 48 56 64 72
node 1 size: 0…
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What is "efficiency" in this machine architecture infographic?
Raptor Engineering released this infographic (below) comparing POWER8 to other processor architectures. (source, context)
In the context of machine architectures, what does "efficiency" refer to?
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