@Dunstan (2)
Two POWER6 chips - two heatsinks - two cores per chip - 4 cores per system.
And each core can have up to 10 partitions, so a single blade can have up to 40 micropartitions (SPARC LDOMs are their version of IBM's micropartitions). Here, instead of partitioning based on number of threads, you partition based on capacity requirements, 10% of a core being the minimum, and going up in 1% increments. This feature is called Advanced POWER Virtualization, and it is available on POWER5 systems and the PPC970 blade (JS21) as well.
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