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Scale Up (SU) is IBM's term for proprietary systems that focus on extreme high availability, low core counts, and high per-core throughput.  These systems typically support proprietary per-CPU licensed software such as [[AIX|AIX]] and Oracle, and tend to use high core threading levels such as [[SMT8|SMT8]].
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Scale Up (SU) is IBM's term for proprietary systems that focus on extreme high availability, low core counts, and high per-core throughput.  These systems typically support proprietary per-CPU licensed software such as [[AIX|AIX]], IBM i, and Oracle, and tend to use high core threading levels such as [[SMT8|SMT8]].
  
 
Contrast with [[Scale_Out|Scale Out (SO)]].
 
Contrast with [[Scale_Out|Scale Out (SO)]].

Latest revision as of 13:11, 22 February 2018

Scale Up (SU) is IBM's term for proprietary systems that focus on extreme high availability, low core counts, and high per-core throughput. These systems typically support proprietary per-CPU licensed software such as AIX, IBM i, and Oracle, and tend to use high core threading levels such as SMT8.

Contrast with Scale Out (SO).