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IBM Power System S821LC Technical Overview and Introduction


Published 01 December 2016, updated 29 August 2017 ISBN-10: 0738455784
ISBN-13: 9780738455785
IBM Form #: REDP-5406-00
(84 pages)





Authors: Scott Vetter, David Barron, Alexandre Bicas Caldeira, Volker Haug


This IBM® Redpaper™ publication is a comprehensive guide that covers the IBM Power System S821LC (8001-12C) server that uses the latest IBM POWER8® processor technology and supports the Linux operating system (OS).

The Power S821LC server is designed to maximize data center floor space with its dense 1U server design, which helps to reduce infrastructure cost. The Power S821LC server delivers superior performance and exceptional throughput for data center and cloud workloads that require dense virtualization, open source database deployment, and high-performance computing applications.

The Power S821LC server supports up to two processor sockets, offering 16-core 2.328 GHz (3.026 GHz turbo) or 20-core 2.095 GHz (2.827 GHz turbo) POWER8 configurations in a 19-inch rack-mount, 1U (EIA units) drawer configuration. All the cores are activated.

The objective of this paper is to introduce the Power S821LC offering and its relevant functions, including:


