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February 13, 2007 — Today, IBM introduces its fastest ever QCM (Quad-Core Module) POWER5+™ processor technology in the IBM System p5™ 560Q Express server as well as two new solutions for Linux® on POWER™.
The p5-560Q Express server offers clients 4- and 8-core 1.8 GHz or 1.5 GHz POWER5+ processor configurations in a 4U (4 EIA units) rack-mount drawer. The p5-560Q Express system drawer accommodates one or two processor cards, each of which provides four 64-bit POWER5+ processors designed with innovative QCM technology, 3.8 MB of Level 2 (L2) cache and 72 MB of Level 3 (L3) cache. Each processor card has eight slots for DDR2 (double data rate 2) Chipkill™ ECC memory DIMMs, providing memory capacity of 2 GB to 32 GB for a 4-core p5-560Q Express and 4 GB to 64 GB for an 8-core configuration. p5-560Q Express servers with 1.8 GHz processors can optionally have up to four I/O drawers significantly adding PCI-X slots and disk storage capacity.
For clients who require greater processor scalability, the System p5 560Q server is available in 16-core 1.8 GHz or 1.5 GHz configurations using two 4U system drawers with up to 128 GB of memory and twice as much I/O capacity as provided in a single-drawer p5-560Q Express server. p5-560Q servers with 1.8 GHz processors can optionally have up to eight I/O drawers significantly adding PCI-X slots and disk storage capacity.
System p5 560Q servers offer clients the added value of optional IBM System p™ Advanced POWER Virtualization (APV), which helps make the p5-560Q an outstanding platform for consolidating AIX 5L™ and Linux OS workloads. APV opens the door to significant cost-saving consolidation opportunities. Clients can install and manage multiple independent applications on a single server and modify their server configuration quickly and easily to meet changing business demands, such as the deployment of additional applications.
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The Integrated Stack for SUSE Linux Enterprise (ISSLE) on IBM System p5 and BladeCenter® JS21 is an attractively priced solution designed to help clients deploy a Web-enabled computing environment quickly and easily. ISSLE provides a complete suite of software components — Linux OS, browser, database, Web application development tools and system management tools. These components, along with an easy-to-use installation procedure, are bundled on a single DVD available from Novell and Novell Certified Business Partners.
Dot C Software RenderDotC for IBM BladeCenter JS21 is a powerful, scalable solution for photorealistic rendering of digital animation and visual effects workflows. Designed to meet the most demanding graphics processing requirements of clients in the media and entertainment industries, this bundle is based on powerful IBM BladeCenter JS21 blades with AltiVec™ SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) acceleration technology and the high performance RenderDotC graphics renderer from Dot C Software. The proven hardware and software technologies on which this solution is built and the industry interface standards to which it is designed combine to help clients reduce their film production schedules and improve the effectiveness of their graphics design personnel.
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