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Karkhanis, T.S., Moreira, J.E. (2011). IBM Power Architecture. In: Padua, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09766-4_13
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