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Deployment factors of geo-distributed Swift using OpenPOWER CPU and hardware covered in this talk.  As an alternative to Intel x86 CPUs, the POWER8 is a 4GHz, 12 core processor with 8 hardware threads per core for a total of 96 threads of parallel execution. It uses 96 MB of eDRAM L3 cache on chip and 128 MB off-chip L4 cache. POWER CPU hardware is as traditional server as well as OCP form factor.  Building on the open edict of OpenStack, the POWER CPU is open source and governed by the OpenPOWER foundation.  With certain applications, it has been shown to be a very power-efficient CPU.  A stable OpenStack component such as Swift makes it a logical candidate for running on a large scale.  Swift has now been ported and is available to run on POWER8-based hardware.