Joe Fay: IBM dons winter gear, gives Emperors and Rockhoppers a refresh. In: The Register. 26. Januar 2016, abgerufen am 7. September 2017 (englisch, dt. Übersetzung des Originaltextes: „The new Rockhopper can run up to 20 4.3GHz cores, and support 4TB of memory, compared to the previous incarnation's 4.2GHz 12 core max, with 500GB of RAM. The new Emperor keeps its predecessor's 141 5.0GHz cores and 10TB of share memory, but gets 667 integrated assist processors for high availability, I/O intensive workloads, instead of the old bird's 640 dedicated I/O (input/output) processors.®“).