52 IBM Power 720 and 740 Technical Overview and Introduction
2.2.2 Power 720 and Power 740 systems
Power 720 and Power 740 systems support POWER7+ processors with various core-counts.
Table 2-3 summarizes the POWER7 processor options for the Power 720 system.
Table 2-3 Summary of POWER7+ processor options for the Power 720 system
Table 2-4 summarizes the POWER7+ processor options for the Power 740 system.
Table 2-4 Summary of POWER+7 processor options for the Power 740 system
Feature
code
Cores per
POWER7
processor
Frequency
(GHz)
Processor activation Min/Max
a
cores per
system
a. Minimum and maximum
Min/Max
a
processor
module
EPCK 4 3.6 The 4-core 3.6 GHz requires
that four processor activation
codes are ordered, available as
4 x FC EPDK or 2 x FC EPDK
and 2 x FC EPEK.
4/4 1/1
EPCL 6 3.6 The 6-core 3.6 GHz requires
that six processor activation
codes be ordered, available as
6 x FC EPDL or 3 x FC EPDL
and 3 x FC EPEL.
6/6 1/1
EPE7 8 3.6 The 8-core 3.6 GHz requires
that eight processor activation
codes be ordered, available as
8 x FC EPDM or 4 x FC EPDM
and 4 x FC EPEM.
8/8 1/1
Feature Cores per
POWER7
processor
Frequency
(GHz)
Processor activation Min/Max
cores per
system
Min/Max
processor
module
EPCP 6 4.2 The 6-core 4.2 GHz requires
that six processor activation
codes are ordered, available as
4 x FC EPDP or 2 x FC EPDP
and 2 x FC EPEP.
6/12 1/2
EPCQ 8 3.6 The 8-core 3.6 GHz requires
that six processor activation
codes are ordered, available as
8 x FC EPDQ or 4 x FC EPDQ
and 4 x FC EPEQ.
8/16 1/2
EPCR 8 4.2 The 8-core 4.2 GHz requires
that eight processor activation
codes are ordered, available as
8 x FC EPDR or 4 x FC EPDR
and 4 x FC EPER.
8/16 1/2