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Power Systems Design

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    Blocking ?UAK expired events log? call out for Customer China Unionpay

    Customer China unionpay has over 100 9119-MME E870 system running production, the UAK expired events log call out every 180 days for every single E870 system. For the over 100 system, customer have to update UAK new license with very high frequenc...
    about 6 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Not under consideration

    voltage regulator is single point of failure in E850C servers

    You can refer to PMR 71797,820,820 (automatically created after call home) and relevant hardware ticket RCMS 01D5MG8,820. I'll focus on E850C (8408-44E) server, but maybe it's also relevant for other Power servers. Server has 4 power supplies and ...
    over 7 years ago in Power Systems Design 2 Not under consideration

    Clock Card Concurrent Maintenance

    Client experienced Customer Impacting Event on 9/12/17. Was told that concurrent maintenance is not an option on Power8 9119 MHE and that an outage would be required to replace clock card to ensure redundancy going forward. PE and Service Availabi...
    over 8 years ago in Power Systems Design 2 Not under consideration

    The "BIOS battery extender" enables simple BIOS battery changes in a computer without stopping the production line. (DE-Patent: AZ: 10 2023 003 285.9)

    Problem Inside computers is a BIOS battery. The BIOS battery ensures that when the computer is turned off, the BIOS configuration settings are not lost. Since the batteries lose charge over time, they must be replaced regularly. A state-of-the-art...
    about 1 month ago in Power Systems Design 0 Submitted

    Add 5250 and VTxxx web console to FSP

    Please, add a web-console or telnet/ssh console to the FSP for single-LPAR systems.
    9 months ago in Power Systems Design 2 Under review

    We suggest new Product of Nvidia DGX based on IBM Power11 or later processors with Nvidia GPUs based on CXL 3.0 or CXL 4.0

    The future High performance Computing can be either Centralized (Cloud) or Distributed or Hybrid, therefore we need to take into consideration the Quantum Safe Cryptography, IBM Power 11 or later Power processors have this capability, also it will...
    almost 3 years ago in Power Systems Design 1 Not under consideration

    Power 9+ Thunderbolt hardware support

    In addition to USB support on Power Systems, Thunderbolt support will be welcomed in future iterations of the Power hardware offerings.
    over 7 years ago in Power Systems Design 2 Not under consideration

    Primeval Quantum C.P.U Desk Top Device's, made for 2025-2029 sales With 5D Data Storage Ultra Inferred Laser Imprint Information Superman Theory with up to 500 Terabytes

    Eccentric Process Unit Of Information To Process into Quantum, Computing For Home Desk Top Use, with water cell's closed off, by the layering into the Network of the said ideal called Primeval , Done by laser imprinted information done In (Yellow ...
    over 1 year ago in Power Systems Design 1 Not under consideration

    Make the control panel more physically accessible (specific issue starting with Power 9 Tower models).

    It would be useful so anyone actually using the control doesn't have to lay on the floor to read it. It should be readily accessible for anyone using it. (i.e. Performing system installs, repairs, etc. when physical access is needed to it.)
    over 2 years ago in Power Systems Design 2 Functionality already exists

    Finally leverage "the mainframe lesson" and fully exploit NUMA in POWERsystems

    Why run VIO servers in the same cores, DIMMs, buses, etc. as all your real workloads? Instead of a 2-socket / 2 NUMA domain system, sell us an asymmetric 4-socket / 4 NUMA domain system where 2 of the sockets / domains are much smaller and contain...
    over 3 years ago in Power Systems Design 3 Not under consideration

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