Advanced virtualization capabilities of POWER5 systems

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 49, Issue 4-5, 2005, Pages 523-532

  Armstrong, William J ^a   Arndt, Richard L ^a   Boutcher, David C ^a   Kovacs, Robert G ^a   Larson, David ^a   Lucke, Kyle A ^a   Nayar, Naresh ^a   Swanberg, Randal C ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; FIRMWARE; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); INTERNET; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; SERVERS;

ETHERNET; PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE; VIRTUAL LOCAL AREA NETWORK; VIRTUAL SMALL COMPUTER SYSTEM INTERFACE; VIRTUALIZED PROCESSORS;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

EID: 25844477999     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.494.0523     Document Type: Article

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