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The IBM System p5 595 server has been withdrawn from the market, effective May 29, 2009. The learn more links provide information on the p5 595.


Highlights

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  • Provides the power to run mission-critical workloads with IBM POWER5™ technology
  • Helps to lower costs and ease administration by consolidating UNIX® and Linux® environments
  • Offers mainframe-inspired reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features for an on demand world

The IBM System p5™ 595 server is designed to help companies conquer their challenges to achieve a competitive edge. As the most powerful IBM System p™ server, the p5-595 can deliver exceptional performance, reliability, scalability and flexibility—enabling businesses to take control of their IT infrastructure by confidently consolidating application workloads onto a single system. Equipped with advanced 64-bit IBM POWER5+™ processor cores in up to 64-core symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) configurations, this server provides the processing power for a full range of complex, mission-critical applications with demanding processing requirements, including business intelligence (BI), enterprise resource planning (ERP), transaction processing and ultra high performance computing (HPC). With twice the number of processors, twice the memory capacity and nearly four times the commercial performance of the previous top-of-the-line IBM eServer™ pSeries® 690 server 1, the p5-595 can ultimately help companies make decisions faster and drive business innovation.

Delivering advanced System p virtualization technologies such as Advanced POWER™ Virtualization 2 plus Capacity on Demand (CoD) options, the p5-595 server can scale rapidly and seamlessly to address the changing needs of an on demand environment. It can execute the IBM AIX 5L™ and Linux operating systems simultaneously, providing the flexibility to run the applications businesses need to achieve their goals. And, extensive mainframe-inspired reliability, availability and serviceability features can help ensure that the system will be ready for business 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Specifically, the System p5 595 server provides:

Common features

  • 24" frame packaging
  • 16-, 24-, 32-, 40-, 48-, 56- or 64-core MCM (Multichip Module) SMP design
  • 64-bit POWER5 technology
  • Mainframe-inspired RAS features including selective dynamic firmware updates and redundant service processor
  • Advanced POWER Virtualization 2 standard
    • IBM Micro-Partitioning™ (up to 254 micro-partitions)
    • Shared processor pool
    • Virtual I/O Server
    • Partition Load Manager (AIX 5L only)
  • Up to 12 I/O drawers (11 are optional)
  • Redundant power subsystem with optional redundant battery backup
  • On demand capabilities for processors and memory—Permanent, On/Off, Reserve (processors only) and Trial activations available
  • Capacity BackUp configurations optionally available
  • IBM HACMP™ 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)
  • System Cluster 1600 support with Cluster Systems Management software*
  • IBM eServer pSeries High Performance Switch and 12x InfiniBand Switch support

Hardware summary

  • 42U 24" system frame packaging
  • 16 to 64 64-bit 2.1 or 2.3 GHz POWER5+ processor cores packaged in MCMs (eight processor cores per MCM)
  • 7.6MB L2 and 144MB L3 cache per MCM
  • 8GB to 1TB of DDR2 SDRAM running at 533 MHz or up to 2TB of DDR2 memory running at 400 MHz
  • Up to 240 hot-plug/blind-swap PCI-X adapter slots (64-bit/133 MHz) via 12 maximum I/O drawers
  • Up to 192 hot-swappable SCSI disk bays via 12 maximum I/O drawers for up to 28.1TB of disk storage
  • Two integrated dual Ultra3 SCSI controllers per I/O drawer
  • Two Hardware Management Console ports
  • Optional 4 Gigabit Fibre Channel, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 12x GX adapters
  • Three media bays via optional media drawer
  • Battery back-up option

1 Based on rPerf (relative performance), an IBM estimate of commercial processing performance. Comparison between a 32-core p690 with 1.9 GHz POWER4+™ processor cores and a 64-core p5-595 with 2.3 GHz POWER5+ processor cores.

2 Not supported on AIX 5L V5.2

* Available as separately-priced software product

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