POWER2

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POWER2 is a second-generation IBM RISC microprocessor architecture designed to deliver high-performance computing, particularly for scientific and technical workloads.

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POWER 1
POWER2 canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf RISC architecture
microprocessor architecture
alsoKnownAs POWER2 RISC processor
applicationDomain engineering simulations
scientific computing
technical computing
architectureFamily POWER
cacheOrganization separate instruction and data cache support
cacheType external L2 cache
commercialAvailability mid-1990s
companyCountry United States of America
surface form: United States
compatibleWith POWER1 software (with some extensions)
designGoal high-performance computing
scientific workloads
technical workloads
developer IBM
endianness big-endian
floatingPointPrecision double precision
single precision
instructionSetArchitecture POWER instruction set architecture
surface form: POWER ISA
introductionYear 1993
manufacturer IBM
marketSegment servers
workstations
notableFeature high memory bandwidth support
multiple floating-point units for high throughput
optimized for scientific and technical workloads
numberOfFloatingPointUnits 2
numberOfIntegerUnits 2
numberOfLoadStoreUnits 1
pipelineType superscalar pipeline
predecessor POWER1
successor POWER3
supportsBranchPrediction true
supportsFloatingPoint true
supportsOutOfOrderExecution false
supportsRegisterRenaming true
supportsSuperscalarExecution true
supportsVectorOperations limited
technologyNode CMOS
usedBy IBM
usedIn IBM RS/6000 systems
surface form: IBM POWERparallel systems

IBM RS/6000 systems
surface form: IBM POWERserver systems

IBM RS/6000 systems
wordLength 64-bit

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IBM RS/6000 systems cpuFamily POWER2
subject surface form: IBM RS/6000
AIX supportsHardwareArchitecture POWER2
this entity surface form: POWER