Specifications

6 IBM Power 770 and 780 Technical Overview and Introduction
Figure 1-2 shows the front and rear views of the Power 770 and Power 780.
Figure 1-2 Front and rear views of the Power 770 and Power 780
1.4 System features
The Power 770 processor card features 64-bit architecture designed with two single-chip
module (SCM) POWER7 processors. The Power 780 processor card comprises either two
single-chip module (SCM) POWER7 processors or four SCM POWER7 processors, each
designed with 64-bit architecture.
Each POWER7 SCM enables either up to six or eight active processor cores with 2 MB of L2
cache (256 KB per core), 24 MB of L3 cache (4 MB per core) for the 6-core SCM, and 32 MB
of L3 cache (4 MB per core) for the 8-core SCM.
1.4.1 Power 770 system features
The following features are available on the Power 770:
򐂰 4U 19-inch rack-mount system enclosure
򐂰 One to four system enclosures: 16U maximum system size
򐂰 One processor card feature per enclosure (includes the voltage regulator):
– 0/12-core, 3.72 GHz processor card (#4983)
– 0/16-core, 3.3 GHz processor card (#4984)
򐂰 POWER7 DDR3 Memory DIMMs (16 DIMM slots per CEC enclosure):
– 0/32 GB (4 X 8 GB), 1066 MHz (#5600)
– 0/64 GB (4 X 16 GB), 1066 MHz (#5601)
– 0/128 GB (4 X 32 GB), 1066 MHz (#5602)
– 0/256 GB (4 X 64 GB), 1066 MHz (#5564)
򐂰 Six hot-swappable, 2.5-inch, small form factor, SAS disk or SSD bays per enclosure
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