IBM Power 770, Technical Overview And Introduction

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IBM Power 770 and 780 (9117-MMD, 9179-MHD) Technical Overview and Introduction
The team who wrote this paper
This paper was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working at the
International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center.
An Ding Chen is a Power Systems Product Engineer in Shanghai, China, who provides
level 3 hardware and firmware support in all Asia Pacific countries and Japan. He has twelve
years of experience on AIX, UNIX, IBM RS/6000®, IBM pSeries®, and Power Systems
products. After university, he passed the CATE certification on pSeries systems and
IBM AIX 5L. He joined IBM in 2006.
Dave Freeman has worked for IBM since 1985. He is currently a Systems Service
Representative (SSR) with IBM UK. He has worked extensively with Power Systems and
Storage systems for the last 10 years. Prior to this role, Dave was an IT Systems Engineer,
providing presales technical support to IBM sales and IBM Business Partners in the small and
medium business sector, primarily on IBM i (IBM AS/400®). He has a degree in Information
Technology from the Polytechnic of Central London.
Breno Henrique Leitão is an Advisory Software Engineer at the Linux Technology Center in
Brazil. He has 14 years of experience with Linux. Breno is also a Master Inventor in Brazil and
holds a degree in Computer Science from Universidade de Sao Paulo. His areas of expertise
include operating systems performance, virtualization, and networking. He has written
extensively about Linux, mainly about networking and debugging.
The project that produced this publication was managed by:
Scott Vetter
Executive Project Manager, PMP
Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:
Ron Arroyo, Tamikia Barrow, Louis Bellanger, James Hermes, Volker Haug, Daniel Hurliman,
Benjamim Mashak, Camille Mamm, Duc Nguyen, Rakesh Sharma, Phil G Williams,
Jacobo Vargas
IBM U.S.A
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