IBM p5 550, Technical Overview And Introduction

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Chapter 2.
Architecture and technical
overview
This chapter discusses the overall system architecture of the p5-550 or p5-550Q. Figure 2-1
details the DCM option. The differences of the QCM option are described in 2.2.1, “p5-550Q
quad-core module” on page 27. The bandwidths in this chapter are theoretical
maximums that are provided for reference. It is always recommended that you obtain
real-world performance measurements using production workloads.
Figure 2-1 The IBM System p5 550 architecture with 2.1 GHz DCM
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