9080-M9S IBM POWER E980, 176 Power9 Cores, 64TB RAM 3.2TB NVMe

IBM Power System E980 (9080-M9S) | 176-Core POWER9 | 64TB RAM | SAP HANA

Engineered for the most demanding mission-critical workloads, the IBM Power System E980 (9080-M9S) delivers unparalleled scalability, reliability, and performance for enterprise data centers. This fully populated four-node symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) server is optimized for massive data consolidation, private cloud deployments, and running ultra-large-scale in-memory databases.

With 176 POWER9 processor cores and a massive 64 TB of DDR4 CDIMM memory capacity, the E980 eliminates the need to partition or shard databases, allowing enormous multi-terabyte monolithic applications to execute entirely in RAM. The POWER9 architecture natively embeds analytics algorithms directly onto the processor, ensuring that deep learning models and financial transactional systems run without compute bottlenecks. Furthermore, the system includes integrated IBM PowerVM firmware, which allows you to run up to 1,000 distinct virtual machines (LPARs) per system, effectively replacing dozens of aging UNIX, Linux, and IBM i servers with a single high-availability footprint.

Enterprise Capabilities

• SAP HANA TDI Certified: Purpose-built and certified for SAP HANA Tailored Datacenter Integration, enabling the largest and most complex multi-terabyte database environments to operate with uncompromising speed and stability.
• Massive I/O Throughput: Features hot-pluggable PCIe Gen4 x16 slots directly within the system nodes, delivering double the I/O bandwidth of previous architectures to ensure rapid data ingestion and eliminate storage bottlenecks.
• Non-Disruptive Scaling: Supports Capacity on Demand (CoD) and Active Memory Expansion (AME), allowing for seamless, dynamic activation of processor and memory resources to respond rapidly to changing business requirements without hardware swaps or downtime.
• Unmatched Resilience: Designed with redundant clocking in each system node, redundant system master Flexible Service Processors (FSP), and robust error correction to support mission-critical workloads where hardware failure is unacceptable.
• Advanced Energy Management: Utilizes IBM EnergyScale technology, offering variable processor frequency modes that provide a significant performance boost beyond static nominal frequencies while efficiently managing thermal output.

(See the comprehensive table below for all precise component specifications, including individual CCIN numbers, FRUs, part numbers, and exact core/memory configurations.)