IBM System p5 520Q Express

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The IBM System p5 520Q Express server has been withdrawn from the market, effective December 12, 2008. The learn more links provide information on the p5 520Q Express.

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Proven 5th generation IBM POWER™ technology
Unique IBM Quad-Core Module technology—ideal for HPC Linux® operating system clusters
Point, click and consolidate for even greater levels of individual system utilization with optional low-cost virtualization features

Take back control of your transaction processing environment with IBM System p5 520 and 520Q Express servers designed for reliability, flexibility and security. A 3-year warranty, special IBM financing and a choice of attractively-priced preconfigured Editions (for IBM AIX 5L™ or Linux operating systems) make these systems easy to buy, install and manage. Both the p5-520 and p5-520Q Express are designed with simultaneous multithreading ¹ for increased system utilization and improved application performance. The new browser-based Integrated Virtualization Manager makes it easier than ever to achieve increased utilization by adding low-cost Advanced POWER Virtualization features to your system.

The System p5 520Q Express platform is a new breed of 4-core Java and Web application server designed to deliver superior system throughput and configurability for demanding eCommerce and Web infrastructure applications. Powered by IBM’s latest Quad-Core Module (QCM) 1.65 GHz POWER5+ processor cores, the p5-520Q Express delivers outstanding performance at compelling low prices for high transaction environment based on the Java platform or for compute-intensive database applications.

Specifically, the System p5 520Q Express server provides:

Common features

19-inch rack-mount or deskside packaging
4-core SMP design
64-bit POWER5+ technology
Mainframe-inspired RAS features
Dynamic LPAR support
Advanced POWER Virtualization¹ (option)
- IBM Micro-Partitioning™ (up to 40 micro-partitions)
- Shared processor pool
- Virtual I/O Server with Integrated Virtualization Manager
- Partition Load Manager (AIX 5L only)
Up to four optional I/O drawers
IBM HACMP™ software support for near continuous operation*
Operating system support via AIX 5L (V5.2 or later) and Linux distributions from Red Hat (RHEL AS 4 or later) and SUSE Linux (SLES 9 or later)

Hardware configurations

Deskside or 4U 19-inch rack-mount packaging
Four 64-bit 1.65 GHz POWER5+ processor cores
3.8MB L2 and 72MB L3 cache
1GB to 32GB of DDR2 SDRAM
Six PCI-X adapter slots (2 – 66 MHz; 3 – 133 MHz; 1 – 266 MHz (DDR))
Four standard and four optional hot-swappable SCSI disk bays for up to 2.4TB of internal storage
Maximum I/O drawers add an additional 28 PCI-X slots and 48 disk bays (14.4TB)
Dual channel Ultra320 SCSI controller (internal; RAID optional)
Dual ported Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps controller
Optional 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 4x GX adapters
Two USB, two HMC, two system ports
Two slimline and one half-high media bays