Glossary
Capacity on Demand (CoD)
IBM's licensing model that lets a Power server ship with more processor or memory capacity installed than activated, with additional capacity unlocked temporarily or permanently as needed.
Capacity on Demand lets a Power server physically contain more processor cores or memory than are actively licensed for use, with additional capacity activated on demand. IBM has offered CoD in some form since the Power5 generation.
Related Terms
POWER5
IBM's processor generation released in 2004, the successor to POWER4, notable for introducing Micro-Partitioning and simultaneous multithreading to the Power line.
CPW
IBM's relative performance benchmark for IBM i systems, used to compare processing capacity across different Power hardware generations and models.