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IBM BladeCenter® blade servers support a wide selection of processor technologies and operating systems to allow clients to run all of their diverse workloads inside a single architecture. Reduce complexity, improve systems management, and increase flexibility while driving down total cost of ownership.
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Blade servers Business use Processor (Max) Internal Memory (max) 1 Storage (max) 1, 2
IBM BladeCenter HS12
IBM BladeCenter HS12
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Cost-efficient uniprocessor blade server ideal for general business applications including file and print, collaboration and Web serving. 1-socket single, dual or quad-core Intel® Xeon® Up to 24GB Up to 293.6GB 1 with hot-swap SAS or non-hot-swap SATA HDDs or up to 32GB with hot swap or non-hot swap solid state drives.
IBM BladeCenter HS21 extended memory
IBM BladeCenter HS21 XM
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Ideal for Citrix, collaboration, Linux® clusters and compute-centric applications. 2-socket dual-core or quad-core Intel® Xeon® Up to 32GB Up to 587.2MB with 1 SAS HDD or 2 Solid State Drives or 1 IBM Modular Flash Drive
IBM BladeCenter HS21
IBM BladeCenter HS21 XM
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Ideal for general purpose applications, such as collaboration, file serving, database and business computing 2-socket dual-core or quad-core Intel® Xeon® Up to 16GB Up to 367GB 1 with 2 SAS HDDs
IBM BladeCenter LS22
IBM BladeCenter LS21
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Ideal for memory-intensive HPC applications including modeling and simulation; database; virtualization; business performance computing (BPC) applications including SAP and business intelligence. 2-socket quad-core AMD Opteron Up to 32GB Up to 293.6 GB with 2 SAS HDDs
IBM BladeCenter LS42
IBM BladeCenter LS41
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Ideal for HPC, including modeling and simulation; database; virtualization; business performance computing applications including SAP and business intelligence. 4-socket quad-core AMD Opteron Up to 64GB Up to 293.6 GB with 2 SAS HDDs
IBM BladeCenter LS21
IBM BladeCenter LS21
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Green to the extreme – Ideal for collaboration, Web serving and general-purpose applications 2-socket dual-core AMD Opteron Up to 32GB Up to 293.6GB 1 with 1 SAS HDD
IBM BladeCenter LS41
IBM BladeCenter LS41
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Innovative scalability - Ideal for Virtualization, database, SAP and ERP applications 4-socket dual-core AMD Opteron Up to 64GB Up to 367GB 1 with 2 SAS HDDs
  IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express
IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express
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Ideal as an alternative to a traditional AIX®, IBM i or Linux for Power™ rack-mount and desk side servers. 1-socket dual-core 64-bit IBM POWER6™ with AltiVec™ SIMD accelerator Up to 64GB Up to 292GB with 2 SAS HDDs
IBM BladeCenter JS22 Express
IBM BladeCenter JS22 Express
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Ideal for workload consolidation with built-in PowerVMTM virtualization, and broad based commercial AIX®, IBM i or Linux® for Power™ applications 2-socket dual-core 64-bit IBM POWER6™ with AltiVec™ SIMD accelerator Up to 32GB Up to 146GB with 1 SAS HDD
IBM BladeCenter JS21 Express
IBM BladeCenter LS21
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Ideal for basic AIX and Linux® for Power™ workloads and high performance computing (HPC) applications 2-socket single-core or dual-core 64-bit IBM PowerPC® 970MP with AltiVec SIMD accelerator Up to 16 GB Up to 293.6GB with 2 SAS HDDs
  IBM BladeCenter QS22
IBM BladeCenter QS22
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Ideal for accelerating compute-intensive HPC workloads such as financial analytics, seismic processing, image processing, signal processing and graphics rendering. 2-socket multi-core PowerXCellTM 8i Up to 32 GB Optional 8GB modular flash drive
IBM BladeCenter QS21
IBM BladeCenter QS21
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Ideal for HPC workloads requiring stream computing image processing, signal processing, and numerical intensive workloads. 2-socket multi-core Cell/B.E 2GB n/a

 1 Maximum internal hard disk and memory capacities may require the replacement of any standard hard drives and/or memory and the population of all hard disk bays and memory slots with the largest currently supported drives available. When referring to variable speed CD-ROMs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs and DVDs, actual playback speed will vary and is often less than the maximum possible.

 2 When referring to storage capacity, GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes and TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Accessible capacity is less. 2 When referring to storage capacity, GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes and TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Accessible capacity is less


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