Assessing IBM’s POWER8, Part 1: A Low Level Look at Little Endian

A few months ago, IBM brought the relatively cheap S812LC server to the market, making sure the IBM POWER8 is within the budget of almost every datacenter. In this article we assess the capabilities of the "affordable" IBM POWER8 and compare with the Intel Xeon E5 v4 to offer you the very first Little Endian, level playing field benchmarks.