Today's businesses require a dynamic IT infrastructure that can meet ever-increasing demands with high reliability, manageability and energy efficiency while offering the scalability to grow with the business and the flexibility to rapidly develop and deploy new services. Clustering has become a key approach to delivering high-performance, high-availability computing.
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Intel® Xeon®, AMD Opteron™ and IBM Power Architecture™ technology-based HPC cluster nodes:
Highly scalable Linux® or Windows® HPC Cluster solutions incorporating Intel Xeon, AMD Opteron and IBM Power6™ for high performance, scientific, technical and commercial computing workloads
Servers/processors:
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iDataPlex Servers: dx360 M2 |
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BladeCenter Servers: HS22, LS22, LS42, JS23, JS43 |
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Rack Servers: x3550 M2, x3650 M2, x3755 |
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Number of servers:
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Up to 1,024 cluster nodes; 1- to 8-core nodes |
Interconnect:
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Ethernet Switches: BLADE Network Technologies, Cisco, Force10, IBM DCN, SMC, Voltaire |
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Ethernet Adapters: Chelsio, Mellanox |
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InfiniBand: Mellanox, Qlogic, Voltaire |
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Fibre Channel: Brocade, Emulex, QLogic |
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POWER™ processor-based AIX® and Linux clusters:
Targeting scientific and technical computing, large-scale databases and workload consolidation
Servers:
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System p5 510 Express, 510Q Express |
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IBM Power Systems 520, 550, 560, 570, 575 and 595 |
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1.65 GHz to 2.1 GHz IBM POWER5+ |
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3.5 GHz to 5.0 GHz IBM POWER6 |
Number of servers/ Logical Partitions (LPARs):
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Up to 16 48- to 64-core SMPs and 128 LPARs |
Interconnect:
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10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet (AIX or Linux) |
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1/10 Gigabit Ethernet (AIX or Linux) |
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4x/12x GX HCA (AIX or Linux) |
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SP Switch2 (AIX and PSSP) |
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High Performance Switch (AIX and CSM) |
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Myrinet-2000 (AIX and Linux) |
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View Cluster 1350 product details |
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View Cluster 1600 product details |
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| Looking for a very green, very energy efficient facility on a very energy efficient system |
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| IBM not only delivers a rich portfolio of High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions spanning systems, software, and services to the marketplace but also uses these HPC solutions to work smarter across its diverse technology, systems, software, and services businesses |
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