Customer Specified Placement

10/12/2011: New IBM Power servers added to Customer Specified Placement (CSP)

The IBM Power 710 Express (8231-E1C) is a 2U rack-mount server with one processor socket offering 4-core 3.0 GHz, 6-core 3.7 GHz, and 8-core 3.55 GHz configurations. The new Power 710 Express model 8231-E1C provides expanded I/O capabilities using the high-performance Gen2 PCIe interfaces. The Power 710 Express server supports a maximum of eight DDR3 DIMM slots, with four DIMM slots included in the base configuration and four DIMM slots available with an optional memory riser card, allowing for a maximum system memory of 128 GB.

The Power 720 Express (8202-E4C) offers a choice of a 4-core, 6-core, or 8-core configuration, provided in your choice of a 4U rack-mount or a tower form factor. The Power 720 POWER7 3.0 GHz chip offers industry-leading 64-bit, SMT4 threading and up to 32 MB on-chip embedded DRAM L3 cache, among other advantages. The Power 720 Express server supports a maximum of 16 DDR3 DIMM slots, with eight DIMM slots included in the base configuration and eight DIMM slots available with an optional memory riser card.

The IBM Power 730 Express (8231-E2C) is a 2U rack-mount server with two processor sockets offering 8-core 3.0 GHz and 3.7 GHz, 12-core 3.7 GHz, and 16-core 3.55 GHz configurations. The new Power 730 Express model 8231-E2C also provides expanded I/O capabilities using the high-performance Gen2 PCIe interfaces, and adds the capability of additional I/O via the 12x PCIe I/O expansion drawers. The Power 730 Express server supports a maximum of 16 DDR3 DIMM slots, with four DIMM slots included in the base configuration and 12 DIMM slots available with three optional memory riser cards, allowing for a maximum system memory of 256 GB.

The Power 740 Express (8205-E6C) offers the following POWER7 processor module configurations in a 4U rack-mount form factor:

• 4-core or 8-core 3.3 GHz
• 4-core, 6-core, 8-core, or 12-core 3.72 GHz
• 16-core 3.55 GHz

The Power 740 Express server supports a maximum of 32 DDR3 DIMM slots, with 8 DIMM slots included in the base configuration and 24 DIMM slots available with three optional memory riser cards.

IBM Power 770 server (9117-MMC) is a modular system which may be configured with one to four processor drawers. A system configured with up to four of these drawers using 6-core SCM processors will enable up to 48 processor cores running at frequencies up to 3.72 GHz. Or, a system configured with up to four drawers using 8-core SCM processors will enable up to 64 processor cores running at frequencies up to 3.30 GHz.

The IBM Power 780 server (9179-MHC) is a symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), rack-mounted server. This modular-built system uses one to four drawer enclosures which are four EIA units tall and housed in a 19-inch rack. New to the model MHC server are two new, powerful POWER7 processor drawers. Each of the new drawers contains a powerful POWER7 processor card and an enhanced POWER7 I/O backplane. Each POWER7 processor card is comprised of either two single-chip module (SCM) POWER7 processors or, new to model MHC, four SCM POWER7 processors, each designed with 64-bit architecture.

07/12/2011: New IBM Power 775 Supercomputer server added to Customer Specified Placement (CSP)

The Power 775 delivers an unprecedented 256-core, POWER7 CEC drawer, coupled with a high-frequency interconnect cluster fabric, making it ideal for many high-performance computing applications. Packaged in an ultra-dense 2U form factor with up to 12 CEC drawers and a disk enclosure installed in a custom, 30-inch water-cooled rack, multiple racks of 775 CEC drawers can be combined to provide a broad range of powerful cluster solutions.

04/12/2011: New expansion drawer added to Customer Specified Placement (CSP)

The EXP24S SFF Gen2-bay Drawer (5887) is an expansion drawer with twenty-four 2.5-inch form factor SAS bays. 5887 supports up to 24 hot-swap SFF SAS Hard Disk Drives (HDD) or up to 24 hot-swap Solid State Drives (SSD) with the new PCIe2 1.8GB Cache RAID SAS Adapter Tri-port 6Gb. All the other SAS controllers connected to EXP24S support up to maximum of 8 SSD or maximum of 24 SFF HDD.