"Welcome to our new Suse Linux on IBM PowerPC5 model 6124-720
(This is probably why you may have recieved a message about the
identity of the machine you are connecting to changing.)"
this welcome message is what you get on openpower servers
8 cpu's are visible in linux (4 hw cores and 4 threaded?)

cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : POWER5 (gr)
clock : 1656.408000MHz
revision : 2.2

processor : 1
cpu : POWER5 (gr)
clock : 1656.408000MHz
revision : 2.2

processor : 2
cpu : POWER5 (gr)
clock : 1656.408000MHz
revision : 2.2

processor : 3
cpu : POWER5 (gr)
clock : 1656.408000MHz
revision : 2.2

processor : 4
cpu : POWER5 (gr)
clock : 1656.408000MHz
revision : 2.2

processor : 5
cpu : POWER5 (gr)
clock : 1656.408000MHz
revision : 2.2

processor : 6
cpu : POWER5 (gr)
clock : 1656.408000MHz
revision : 2.2

processor : 7
cpu : POWER5 (gr)
clock : 1656.408000MHz
revision : 2.2

timebase : 207051000
machine : CHRP IBM,9124-720