Power hardware

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The Power™ 520 Express server with 1, 2 , or 4 – 4.2 GHz POWER6™ processors offers outstanding business value for many small and mid-sized companies as an affordable UNIX® and Linux distributed application, small database server, or as a complete integrated business system utilizing the IBM i operating system.

• Processor cores1-, 2- or 4-core POWER6 with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration

• Clock rates (Min/Max)4.2 GHz

• System memory (Std/Max)1 GB / 64 GB

• Internal storage (Std/Max)73.4 GB / 30.6 TB (with optional I/O drawers)

• Performance (rPerf range)**8.39 / 31.48

The IBM Power 550 Express platform is an up to 8-core server with 3.5 or 4.2 GHz POWER6 processor cores and is designed to deliver outstanding business value to medium-sized businesses with the leadership performance, choice of operating systems, and proven virtualization capabilities of PowerVM™. Whether you need a high performing system for application or database serving, a reliable and efficient server consolidation platform, or a scalable complete business system with integrated database and application server, the Power 550 Express server can fulfill your requirements by choosing the AIX®, IBM i or Linux operating systems.

• Processor cores2-, 4-, 6- or 8-core POWER6 with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration

• Clock rates (Min/Max)3.5 / 4.2 GHz

• System memory (Std/Max)1 GB / 256 GB

• Internal storage (Std/Max)73.4 GB / 30.6 TB (with optional I/O drawers)

• Performance (rPerf range)**15.85 / 68.20

The IBM Power 560 Express platform is an up to 16-core server with 3.6 GHz POWER6 processor cores and is designed to deliver outstanding business value to medium and large organizations with the leadership performance, innovative RAS features, and proven virtualization capabilities of PowerVM. Whether you need a reliable and efficient server consolidation platform or a high performing system for application or database serving, the Power 560 Express server can fulfill your requirements by choosing the AIX, IBM i or Linux operating systems.

• Processor cores4-, 8-, or 16 core POWER6 with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration

• Clock rates (Min/Max)3.6 GHz

• System memory (Std/Max)8 GB / 384 GB

• Internal storage (Std/Max)Up to 2.7 TB per 560 building block

• Performance (rPerf range)**

Easily scale from 2 to 32 cores with the IBM Power 570. Unique IBM modular SMP architecture lets you add more powerful POWER6 3.5, 4.2, 4.4, 4.7 or 5.0 GHz processing capability exactly when needed. Innovative RAS features and leadership virtualization capabilities make the 570 well suited as a mid-range application or database server, or for server consolidation. And the flexibility to use the leading-edge AIX, IBM i and Linux operating systems broadens the application offerings available and increases the ways clients can manage growth, complexity and risk.

• Processor cores2, 4, 8, 12, 16, POWER6 @ 3.5, 4.2, 4.4, 4.7, or 5.0 GHz OR 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 POWER6 @ 4.2 GHz

• Clock rates (Min/Max)3.5 / 5.0 GHz

• System memory (Std/Max)4 GB / 768 GB

• Internal storage (Std/Max)146.8 GB / 79.2 TB (with optional I/O drawers)

• Performance (rPerf range)**15.85 / 193.25

IBM Power 575 supercomputing nodes are 32-core high-powered building blocks for high performance computing (HPC) applications-featuring ultra-dense packaging and water cooling technology for the latest in green engineering.

• Processor cores32 IBM POWER6

• Clock rates (Min/Max)4.7 GHz

• System memory (Std/Max)32 GB / 256 GB

• Internal storage (Std/Max)73.4 GB / 293.6 GB per node

• LINPACK HPC performance (GFLOPS) *466.9 (Rmax) and 790 (Rpeak) for 32-cores

The IBM Power 595 server uses 64-bit POWER6 dual-core processor technology in 8- to 64-core configurations with PowerVM™ virtualization and offers leading performance, flexibility, scalability, manageability and security features needed for the consolidation of mission-critical AIX, IBM i, and Linux applications on a single system to save on hardware, software, energy and space costs.

• Processor cores8 to 64 IBM POWER6

• Clock rates (Min/Max)4.2 GHz / 5.0 GHz

• System memory (Std/Max)16 GB / 4 TB

• I/O drawers - 24" (Std/Max)1 - 30

• Performance (rPerf range)**80.96 / 553.01