The IBM Power architecture is an instruction set architecture (ISA) implemented by a variety of processors from IBM and other vendors, including Power7, IBM’s latest server processor. The IBM Power architecture is designed to exploit parallelism at the instruction-, data-, and thread-level.
IBM’s Power ISA TM is an instruction set architecture designed to expose and exploit parallelism in a wide range of applications, from embedded computing to high-end scientific computing to traditional transaction processing. Processors implementing the Power ISA have been used to create several notable parallel computing systems, including the IBM RS/6000 SP, the Blue Gene family of computers, the Deep Blue chess playing machine, the PERCS system, the Sony Playstation 3 game console, and the Watson system that competed in the popular television show Jeopardy!
Power ISA covers both 32-bit and 64-bit variants and, as of its latest.
