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Highlights

Helps reduce time to deploy Linux® and Windows® clusters

Provides industry-leading cluster choice with integrated IBM and OEM components

Drives power and cooling benefits from IBM Systems innovation

Offers single point-of-contact for worldwide Cluster 1350 hardware warranty support

Reduced time to deployment

IBM high-performance computing (HPC) clustered solutions offer significant price/performance advantages for many high-performance workloads by harnessing the advantages of low-cost servers plus innovative, easily available, open source and commercially available software.

Today, some businesses are using their own resources to build Linux and Windows clusters using commodity hardware, standard interconnects and networking technology; open source software; and in-house or third-party applications. Any savings realized from a potentially lower acquisition cost offered by these systems is offset by the expense and complexity of assembling, integrating, testing and managing these clusters from disparate, piece-part components.

IBM has designed the IBM System Cluster 1350 to help address these challenges. Our clients benefit from IBM’s extensive experience with HPC to help minimize complexity and risk. Using advanced Intel® Xeon®, AMD™ Opteron™ and IBM POWER6™-based server nodes, proven cluster management software, and optional high-speed interconnects, the Cluster 1350 offers the best of IBM and third-party technologies. As a result, clients can speed up installation of an HPC cluster, simplify its management and support, and reduce mean time to payback.

The Cluster 1350 is designed to be an ideal solution for a broad range of application environments, including industrial design and manufacturing, financial services, life sciences, government and education. These environments typically require excellent price/performance for handling HPC and business-performance computing workloads. It is also an excellent choice for applications that require horizontal scaling capabilities, such as Web serving and collaboration.

Common features		Hardware summary

Rack-optimized Intel Xeon dual-core and quad-core and AMD Opteron processor-based servers Intel Xeon, AMD Opteron and POWER6-based blades Optional high capacity IBM System Storage™ DS3200, DS3400, DS4700, DS4800 and EXP3000 Storage Servers and IBM System Storage EXP 810 Storage Expansion Industry-standard Gigabit Ethernet cluster interconnect Optional high-performance Myricom, BNT, or Force 10 10Gb cluster interconnect Optional Cisco, Voltaire and QLogic DDR InfiniBand cluster interconnects PCI-E Single Port DDR HCA and PCI-E 2.0 Dual DDR HCA Clearspeed Floating Point Accelerator Terminal server and KVM switch Space-saving flat panel monitor and keyboard Runs with RHEL5 or SLES10 Linux operating systems or Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (Windows HPC Server 2008 in August 2008) Robust cluster systems management and scalable parallel file system software Hardware installed and integrated in 25U or 42U Enterprise racks Scales up to 1,024 cluster nodes (larger systems and additional configurations available—contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner) Optional Linux or Windows cluster installation and support services from IBM Global Services or an authorized partner or distributor Clients must obtain the version of the Linux or Windows operating system specified by IBM from IBM, the Linux Distributor, Microsoft, or an authorized reseller		x3650—dual core and quad core up to 3.16 GHz x3550—dual core and quad core up to 3.16 GHz x3455—dual core up to 3.0 GHz x3655—dual core up to 2.8 GHz x3755—dual core up to 3.2 GHz HS21—dual and quad core up to 3.0 GHz HS21-XM—dual and quad core up to 3.0 GHz, JS22—four 64-bit 4.0 GHz POWER6 LS21—dual core up to 3.0 GHz LS41—dual core up to 3.0GHz QS21—multi-core Up to 64 storage nodes