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4 IBM Power 570 Technical Overview and Introduction
Figure 1-1 shows system views.
Figure 1-1 Views of the system
1.3 System features
The full system configuration is made of four CEC building blocks. It features:
2-, 4-, 8-, 12-, 16-, and 32-core configurations utilizing the POWER6 chip on up to eight
dual core processor cards, or eight dual-core POWER6 dual-chip processor cards.
Up to 192 GB DDR2 memory per enclosure, 768 GB DDR2 max per system. Available
memory features are 667 MHz, 533 MHz, or 400 MHz depending on memory density.
Up to 6 SAS DASD disk drives per enclosure, 24 max per system.