| Runs on IBM POWER6™ and POWER5+™ processor-based servers |
- Offers enterprise class capabilities and energy efficiency that UNIX® clients have depended on to run their businesses to the Linux® marketplace
- Offers leadership reliability, availability and scalability for unparalleled dependability and improved responsiveness of systems and people
- Supports Capacity Upgrade on Demand (optional on selected platforms) to help meet ongoing capacity needs
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| Runs on BladeCenter® blades in the BladeCenter chassis |
- Provides floating-point acceleration for HPC performance
- Allows POWER6 processor-based blades to be mixed and matched with Intel® and AMD Opteron™ processor-based blades
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| Red Hat and Novell/SUSE Linux for Power™ operating system orderable through IBM |
- Linux distribution is easy to order with the hardware platform
- Distributions are tested by distributors and IBM
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| Additional distributions support POWER® |
- ASIANUX/RedFlag distribution supported as strategic Linux distribution in Asia
- Debian, Ubuntu and other distributions are available to offer maximum choice
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| Leadership RAS features |
- First Failure Data Capture designed to isolate fault conditions to help prevent re-occurrence
- ECC and IBM Chipkill memory designed to reduce memory errors and keep applications running
- Includes hardware Service Processor to constantly monitors/reports system health
- Designed with fault tolerant power and cooling with N+1 redundancy to reduce downtime due to power and cooling component failures or required replacements
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| Leadership virtualization features (optional on some models) |
- IBM PowerVM™ virtualization enables industry-leading virtualization features for Linux applications to help reduce energy and IT costs and better manage growth without adding complexity
- Shared Processor Pools provide the ability to transparently share processing power between partitions and balance processing power
- Dynamic LPAR allows reallocation of system resources without rebooting affected partitions, offering greater flexibility in using available capacity and more rapidly matching resources to changing business requirements
- IBM Micro-Partitioning™ technology designed to further enhance flexibility by allowing fractional processor allocation down to 1/10th of a processor
- Virtual I/O Server designed to help save costs by allowing partitions to share a single physical I/O adapter—SCSI, Fibre Channel, DVD, Ethernet
- Virtual LAN (VLAN) for extraordinary network performance between partitions
- Shared Dedicated Capacity helps optimize use of processor cycles
- Live Partition Mobility feature of PowerVM Enterprise Edition allows workload to be moved with no application downtime for better system utilization, improved application availability and energy savings
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| PowerVM Lx86 feature of all PowerVM Editions available at no additional charge |
- Allows x86 applications to be dynamically executed on Linux for Power platforms significantly expanding the potential application base
- Potential to enhance ISV and developer capability to offer their Linux on x86 applications to Linux for Power platforms more rapidly and at a minimal cost
- Able to use x86 Linux development environment and methodology may reduce implementation risk
- Single source and binary for Linux (x86 & Power Architecture®) helps reduce cost
- Helps x86 Linux applications take advantage of the award-winning IBM PowerVM, leadership performance and superb RAS features
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| Wide range of applications |
- Leading applications are available to support business needs
- Thousands of open source and ISV applications are available
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| Choice in service offerings |
- Service for Linux for Power systems available through IBM Global Technology Services
- Red Hat and Novell/SUSE Linux distributors also support and service the Linux for Power operating system
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