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nx-gzip and nx-zlib

POWER on-chip “nx-gzip” compression accelerator (on P9 and P10)

• Highest throughput on-chip compress/decompress engine in the industry
• 100 to 400 times data compression speedup over a single processor core
• Performs the equivalent work of 10s to 100s of cores
• NX-GZIP hardware is available on every P processor chip
• User-mode accelerator interface VAS eliminates kernel/hypervisor overheads
• Higher compression ratio with the dynamic Deflate mode support
• zThemis processor chip adopted NX-GZIP plus IBM Z hardware enhancements (NXU)
• POWER AIX software support to GA this year

For nx-zlib developers

Commit code

Test nx-zlib

For nx-zlib users

Enable nx-gzip on POWER9

Configure nx-zlib