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IBM Power™ Systems — a single, energy efficient and easy-to-deploy platform for all of your UNIX®, Linux® and IBM i applications.
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The Power™ 520 Express server with 1, 2 , or 4 – 4.2 or 4.7 GHz POWER6™ processors offers outstanding business value for many small and mid-sized companies as an affordable UNIX® and Linux distributed application, small database server, or as a complete integrated business system utilizing the IBM i operating system.
- Starting at $5,576.00 (IBM US list price)*
- Lease for as low as $175.09/mo. for 36 months**
| Processor cores | 1-, 2- or 4-core POWER6 with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration |
| Clock rates (Min/Max) | 4.2 / 4.7 GHz |
| System memory (Std/Max) | 2 GB / 64 GB |
| Internal storage (Std/Max) | 73.4 GB / 30.6 TB (with optional I/O drawers) |
| Performance (rPerf range)*** | 8.39 / 39.73 |
The IBM Power 550 Express platform is an up to 8-core server with 3.5, 4.2 or 5.0 GHz POWER6 processor cores and is designed to deliver outstanding business value to medium-sized businesses with the leadership performance, choice of operating systems, and proven virtualization capabilities of PowerVM™. Whether you need a high performing system for application or database serving, a reliable and efficient server consolidation platform, or a scalable complete business system with integrated database and application server, the Power 550 Express server can fulfill your requirements by choosing the AIX®, IBM i or Linux operating systems.
- Starting at 19,176.00 (IBM US list price)*
- Lease for as low as $602.13/mo. for 36 months**
| Processor cores | 2-, 4-, 6- or 8-core POWER6 with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration |
| Clock rates (Min/Max) | 3.5 / 5.0 GHz |
| System memory (Std/Max) | 4 GB / 256 GB |
| Internal storage (Std/Max) | 73.4 GB / 30.6 TB (with optional I/O drawers) |
| Performance (rPerf range)*** | 15.85 / 78.60 |
The IBM Power 560 Express platform is an up to 16-core server with 3.6 GHz POWER6 processor cores and is designed to deliver outstanding business value to medium and large organizations with the leadership performance, innovative RAS features, and proven virtualization capabilities of PowerVM. Whether you need a reliable and efficient server consolidation platform or a high performing system for application or database serving, the Power 560 Express server can fulfill your requirements by choosing the AIX, IBM i or Linux operating systems.
- Starting at $47,216.00 (IBM US list price)*
- Lease for as low as $1,482.58/mo. for 36 months**
| Processor cores | 4-, 8-, or 16 core POWER6 with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration |
| Clock rates (Min/Max) | 3.6 GHz |
| System memory (Std/Max) | 8 GB / 384 GB |
| Internal storage (Std/Max) | Up to 2.7 TB per 560 building block |
| Performance (rPerf range)*** | 31.32 / 100.30 |
Easily scale from 2 to 32 cores with the IBM Power 570. Unique IBM modular SMP architecture lets you add more powerful POWER6 3.5, 4.2, 4.4 or 5.0 GHz processing capability exactly when needed. Innovative RAS features and leadership virtualization capabilities make the 570 well suited as a mid-range application or database server, or for server consolidation. And the flexibility to use the leading-edge AIX, IBM i and Linux operating systems broadens the application offerings available and increases the ways clients can manage growth, complexity and risk.
| Processor cores | 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, POWER6 @ 3.5, 4.4, or 5.0 GHz OR 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 POWER6 @ 4.2 GHz |
| Clock rates (Min/Max) | 3.5 / 5.0 GHz |
| System memory (Std/Max) | 4 GB / 768 GB |
| Internal storage (Std/Max) | 146.8 GB / 79.2 TB (with optional I/O drawers) |
| Performance (rPerf range)*** | 15.85 / 193.25 |
IBM Power 575 supercomputing nodes are 32-core high-powered building blocks for high performance computing (HPC) applications-featuring ultra-dense packaging and water cooling technology for the latest in green engineering.
| Processor cores | 32 IBM POWER6 |
| Clock rates (Min/Max) | 4.7 GHz |
| System memory (Std/Max) | 32 GB / 256 GB |
| Internal storage (Std/Max) | 73.4 GB / 293.6 GB per node |
| LINPACK HPC performance (GFLOPS) 1 | 466.9 (Rmax) and 790 (Rpeak) for 32-cores |
The IBM Power 595 server uses 64-bit POWER6 dual-core processor technology in 8- to 64-core configurations with PowerVM™ virtualization and offers leading performance, flexibility, scalability, manageability and security features needed for the consolidation of mission-critical AIX, IBM i, and Linux applications on a single system to save on hardware, software, energy and space costs.
| Processor cores | 8 to 64 IBM POWER6 |
| Clock rates (Min/Max) | 4.2 GHz / 5.0 GHz |
| System memory (Std/Max) | 16 GB / 4 TB |
| I/O drawers (Std/Max) | 1 - 32 |
| Performance (rPerf range)*** | 75.58 / 553.01 |
1 LINPACK is a collection of Fortran subroutines that analyze and solve linear equations and linear least-squares problems. For details on the latest LINPACK results, visit: http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/performance.ps.
* Price does not include tax and is subject to change without notice. Price indicated applies to specific model which may not have all available features and functions. Different configurations have higher prices. Operating system is available for an additional charge.
** The IBM Financing Advantage program is for commercial clients with more than 25 employees for acquisitions up to $300,000. Actual rates are based on a client's credit rating, financing terms, offering type, equipment type and options. Other restrictions may apply. Rates and offerings are subject to change, extension or withdrawal without notice. IBM Global Financing offerings are provided through IBM Credit LLC in the United States, IBM Canada Ltd. in Canada, and other IBM subsidiaries and division worldwide to qualified commercial and government customers. Lease options for businesses with less than 25 employees are offered and administered in the United States and Canada by third party providers and are not affiliated with IBM Credit LLC or IBM Canada Ltd offerings or programs. Minimum transaction size is $5,000 for businesses with fewer than 25 employees. All terms and conditions are provided by the third party providers and are not part of IBM Canada Ltd. offerings or programs.
*** The benchmarks and values shown herein were derived using particular, well configured, development-level computer systems. Actual system performance may vary and is dependent upon many factors including system hardware configuration and software design and configuration.
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