GPS52350 - Introduction to POWER9

systems
The air-cooled AC922 configuration supports:

DWPD (Drive Writes Per Day) is the number of writes allowed for the full capacity of the drive
per 24 hours.
- True

Which memory configuration will allow a 9006-12P/22P system with two processors to achieve
the maximum DDR4 frequency of 2667MHz?
- 8x 32 GB DIMMs

Which of the following use cases will benefit from OpenCAPI?

- Attach Coherent Network Controllers
- Attach advanced memory
- Attach accelerators

The NVMe drives in a 9006-22P system are driven by the integrated PM8069 controller.
- False

Traditionally PRD (Processor Runtime Diagnostics) ran on the FSP, while in POWER9 systems
PRD runs as a host application in its own partition (the service partition).
- True

POWER9 SMT8 Core processors are optimized PowerVM Ecosystem server offerings.
- True

LC922 servers are designed for Big Data because they support up to six GPUs
- False

Which of the following statements is true about OpenCAPI?

- OpenCAPI is architecture agnostic

Which of the following features are available in the AC922’s OpenBMC?

- IPMI 2.0 support
- Event logs
- VPD inventory
What does the following command do?
#nvme smart-log /dev/nvme0
- Shows vital information about the specified NVMe device

In which three of the following business sectors did POWER-based servers sell best in 2017?

Which of the following statements are true for POWER9-based servers?

- POWER9 servers provide increased I/O bandwidth by adding support for PCIe Gen4
adapters
- POWER9 servers provide up to 4x more memory capacity than POWER8 servers

Which of the following AC922 features are provided by Secure Boot and the TPM?

The S914, S924 and S922 servers are designed for commercial workloads and support AIX, IBM i
and Linux
- True

The AC922 accelerated servers are optimized for AI and HPC.

- True

Which POWER9 processor core type is used in the S914. S924 and S922 Scale-out systems?
- POWER9 SMT8 Core

The SATA DOMs in a 9006-22P system are used for:

- OS Boot

The POWER9 Scale-out family has the following features:

- Supports two internal NVMe boot adapters
- Supports DDR4 Industry Standard RDIMMs

Which of the following accelerator interconnects can be found in the AC922 system?
- PCIe Gen4
- CAPI 2.0
- NVLink 2.0
- OpenCAPI
Which of the following situations is considered a “High Impact Outage” from RAS perspective?
- The system could not restart after a fault. An unplanned repair action is required.

The basic idea behind CAPI is the ability to attach an external device to the processor and to
allow it to access the main memory just like a CPU core would.
- True

What are the three key processor enhancements that make the POWER9 processor optimized
for cognitive and AI workloads?
- IBM moved to the 14 nm manufacturing process technology
- A new processor core design focused on AI and cognitive workloads
- The cache hierarchy was enhanced to deal with big data sets