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 IBM System p5 560Q Express
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- Dense Quad-Core Module (QCM) technology for outstanding price/performance
- Up to 16-core scalability with modular architecture
- Excellent for large applications, mid-sized databases and departmental HPC serving
- Ideal as a Linux® operating system consolidation server
The IBM System p5™ 560Q mid-range server implements outstanding price/performance, mainframe-inspired reliability and availability features, and scalability to 16-cores. Based on IBM POWER5+™ processors with simultaneous multithreading 1 and a scalable, 4U (EIA Units) building block package, the 19-inch rack-mount p5-560Q delivers performance, scalability and reliability features for commercial and technical applications. It is well-suited for large single applications, mid-sized databases and departmental high performance computing (HPC) serving. As a Linux consolidation server, it is designed to provide superior availability while reducing infrastructure costs.
The System p5 560Q platform offers a powerful one or two building block system that scales from 4- to 16-cores. The system’s modular architecture means you can start with a 4-core, single QCM system and easily add an additional QCM to upgrade to an 8-core system. A second building block with two additional QCMs can also be added when more processing power is needed to expand the server to 16-cores. With the System p5 560Q server, you have fewer management challenges because of its symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) building block technology. Additional I/O and storage capacity come standard with each building block added.
Specifically, the System p5 560Q server provides:
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- 19-inch rack-mount packaging
- 4- to 16-core SMP design with unique building block architecture
- 64-bit POWER5+ processors
- Mainframe-inspired RAS features
- Dynamic LPAR support
- IBM Advanced POWER™ Virtualization 1 (option)
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- IBM Micro-Partitioning™ (up to 160 micro-partitions)
- Shared processor pool
- Virtual I/O Server with integrated Virtualization Manager
- Partition Load Manager (IBM AIX 5L™ only)
- Up to eight optional I/O drawers 2
- IBM HACMP™ software support for near continuous operation*
- Supported by AIX 5L (V5.2 or later) and Linux distributions from Red Hat (RHEL AS 4 or later) and SUSE Linux (SLES 9 or later) operating systems
- System Cluster 1600 support with Cluster Systems Management software*
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- 4U 19-inch rack-mount packaging
- One to two building blocks
- Four, eight or 16 1.5 GHz or 1.8 GHz 64-bit POWER5+ processors
- L2 cache: 3.8MB to 15.2MB (4- to 16-core)
- L3 cache: 72MB to 288MB (4- to 16-core)
- 2GB to 128GB of DDR2 memory (32GB maximum on 4-core system; 64GB on 8-core system)
- Six hot-plug PCI-X adapter slots per building block
- Six hot-swappable disk bays per building block provide up to 3.6TB of internal disk storage
- Optional I/O drawers 2 may add up to an additional 56 PCI-X slots (for a maximum of 68) and 96 disk bays (28.8TB additional internal disk storage)
- Dual channel Ultra320 SCSI controller per building block (internal; RAID optional)
- One integrated 2-port 10/100/1000 Ethernet per building block
- 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 4x InfiniBand adapters
- One 2-port USB per building block
- Two HMC and two system ports
- Two hot-plug media bays per building block
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* Available as separately-priced software product
1 Not supported on AIX 5L V5.2
2 Supported on 1.8 GHz models only
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