White Papers
IBM eServer p5 AIX 5L Support for Micro-Partitioning and Simultaneous Multi-Threading White Paper
Overview IBM eServer p5 servers with POWER5 processors contain new technologies called simultaneous multi-threading and optionally, Micro-Partitioning. Micro-Partitioning is a mainframe-inspired technology that is based on two major advances in the area of server virtualization. Physical processors and I/O devices have been virtualized enabling these resources to be shared by multiple partitions. There are several advantages associated with this technology including finer grained resource allocations, more partitions and higher resource utilization. AIX 5L Version 5.3 contains support for these new technologies. This white paper describes these new technologies and the AIX 5L support for them.
| Publisher | IBM | File Format | |
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| Date Published | July 2004 | ||
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