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IBM plans to offer the new POWER7® processor-based Power 775 Supercomputer that is planned to accelerate high performance computing innovation in smarter computing projects such as climate prediction, medical and life sciences, financial services, petroleum reservoir modeling, and industrial design. The Power 775 Supercomputer is planned to be a highly integrated, densely packaged, high performance supercomputer in a rack solution, including compute nodes, storage, interconnect fabric and featuring energy efficient water cooling technology.
Statements of Direction
IBM intends to enhance the interoperability of Systems Director Management Console with IBM Systems Director management servers.
IBM plans to enhance its Power Systems Enterprise Class SSD solutions with technology designed to continue to provide significant improvements in performance and storage density over time. IBM plans for these IBM Power Systems enhancements to include both SAS-bay-based and PCIe-based SSD product offerings that will leverage IBM's investments in its SSD optimized Enterprise Class RAID Storage Controllers.
IBM plans to introduce a large-cache PCIe SAS adapter in 3Q2011 for clients with large numbers of HDD and/or SSD per adapter. It is planned to be supported on POWER7 configurations (Power 720, 740, 770, 780, 795), POWER7 750 servers with 12X PCIe I/O drawers, or on POWER6 servers with 12X PCIe I/O drawers. It is planned to support SSD or HDD located in #5802/5803 12X PCIe, #5886 EXP12S and #5887 EXP24S I/O drawers. It is planned to be supported by AIX 5.3 or later, IBM i 6.1 with Virtual IO Server (VIOS), or IBM i 7.1 with or without VIOS. Support by IBM i 6.1 without VIOS is planned 4Q2011. The adapter is planned to be configured as pairs of single-wide PCIe cards, much like the existing #5805/5903 PCIe adapters.
IBM plans to support the PCIe Riser Card (Gen2)(#5685) without VIOS in an IBM i 6.1 environment with machine code 6.1.1 in fourth quarter 2011.
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