[rescue] RS/6000 board ID

[Julius Sridhar]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, George Adkins wrote:

> > > PPC and PCI years ago. I don't recall seeing a date later than about 1993
> > > anywhere in the box, although that doesn't prove anything.
> >
> > MCA is gone now, but that machine was one of the last.  IBM never
> > abandoned POWER.  The only reason they use PowerPC chips is they are
> > cheaper.  The latest and greatest fast RS/6000's are POWER4-based.  POWER4
> > is ridiculously fast.
> >
> The last article I reas concerning Power4 was that it was going to have up to
> 4 cores in one carrier package, all with independent interconnects...

The way POWER4 systems are organized is that they have two cores on each
chip.  Each core has 512kB/512kB level 1 cache.  The module has an 8MB (or
is it 10MB?) level 2 cache for both cores, and the processor board (with
two POWER4's) has 128MB level 3 cache.

Peace...  Sridhar