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What companies are porting their software to Power8 at the moment?
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Moya
There are so many like SAP who ported SAP HANA http://www-03.ibm.co...
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Moya
Another is the Graph Database #Neo4J http://neo4j.com/new... announced in the past couple of weeks
Simon Armiger
And MongoDB Enterprise...
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Roland Whitehead
A key thing is understanding thread management - some software isn't very thread happy so you have to think carefully about how you optimise and how you use all those cores.
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Moya
In addition many commercial software vendors have also adopted Linux on POWER such as #Informatica
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Moya
The 8 threads percore make the POWER8 processor like a super highway able to process more and bring awesome visualization at the thread level
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Moya
@GuyClapperton if you want to read more about the threads check out my blog http://asmarterplane...
Simon Armiger
There are loads of testimonials from ISVs who have found the benefit of running their apps on #Power8 http://bit.ly/1QgRvu...