With IBM Recently anouncing that they are no longer offering their IBM POWER6 product range, I looked at what this meant and possible upgrade options available for upgrades and how best to maximise any machines that still have spare CPU/RAM slots that could be upgraded.
The withdrawal dates for IBM POWER6 after which you can't buy new machines (nor POWER5 to POWER6 upgrades) are as follows:...

IBM have issued the following bulletin for POWER6 systems with 12X I/O PCIe drawers attached. If you need some help checking/updating your system please get in touch.

System Firmware Recommendation for Power 6 Systems with F/C 5802 or 5877 drawer (in a 19" rack), or F/C 5803 or 5873 drawer (in a 24"rack), attached

I just stumbled acoss a benchmarking paper for the IBM Power6 570 running Oracle 11i. It's a bit old, but sill relevant for a lot of people I suspect.

http://regmedia.co.uk/2007/05/20/ibmpower6.pdf

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