02/05/2013: New IBM Power 710, 730 (2U High); 720, 740 (4U High) & 750, 760 (5U High) Servers added to Customer Specified Placement (CSP)
The IBM Power 710 & 730 servers are a high-performance, energy-efficient, reliable, and secure infrastructure and application servers in a dense form factor. The IBM Power 710 Express Server is a 2U rack-mount server with one processor socket offering 4-core 3.6 GHz, 6-core 4.2 GHz, and 8-core 4.2 GHz configurations. The new Power 710 Express model 8231-E1D provides expanded I/O capabilities using the high-performance Gen2 PCIe interfaces. The IBM Power 730 Express Server is a 2U rack-mount server with two processor sockets offering 8-core 4.3 GHz, 12-core 4.2 GHz, and 16-core 3.6 GHz and 4.2 GHz configurations. The new Power 730 Express model 8231-E2D also provides expanded I/O capabilities using the high-performance Gen2 PCIe interfaces, and adds the capability of additional I/O through the 12x PCIe I/O expansion drawers.
The performance, availability, and flexibility of the IBM Power 720 & 740 servers can enable companies to spend more time running their business, using proven solutions from thousands of ISVs that support the AIX, IBM i, and Linux operating systems. The new Power 720 model (8202-E4D) offers a choice of a 4-, 6-, or 8-core configuration in either a 4U rack-mount or a tower form factor. The Power 720 POWER7+ 3.6 GHz chip offers industry-leading 64-bit, SMT4 threading and up to 32 MB on-chip embedded DRAM L3 cache, among other advantages. The new Power 740 model (8205-E6D) supports a maximum of 32 DDR3 DIMM slots, with eight DIMM slots included in the base configuration and 24 DIMM slots available with three optional memory riser cards. Memory features (two memory DIMMs per feature) supported are 8 GB, 16 GB, 32 GB, and 64 GB that run at speeds of 1066 MHz. A system with three optional memory riser cards installed has a maximum memory of 1024 GB.
The IBM Power 750 & 760 servers support up to four, POWER7+ processor dual chip modules (DCMs), also, the optional Active Memory Expansion can allow the effective maximum memory capacity to be much larger than the true physical memory. The IBM Power 750 Express server (8408-E8D) supports a maximum of 64 DDR3 DIMM slots, 16 per 8-core processor DCM. Memory features (two memory DIMMs per feature) supported are 8, 16, and 32 GB and run at speeds of 1066 MHz. A system with four DCMs installed has a maximum memory of 1024 GB. Innovative compression/decompression of memory content using processor cycles can allow memory expansion up to 100%. A server with a maximum of 1024 GB can effectively be expanded up to 2 TB. The IBM Power 760 server (9109-RMD) supports a maximum of 64 DDR3 DIMM slots, 16 per 0/12-core processor DCM. Memory features (two memory DIMMs per feature) supported are 8, 16, 32, and 64 GB and run at speeds of 1066 MHz. A system with four DCMs installed has a maximum memory of 2048 GB. Innovative compression/decompression of memory content using processor cycles can allow memory expansion up to 125%. A server with a maximum of 2048 GB can effectively be expanded to greater than 4 TB.
10/03/2012: New IBM Power 770 & 780 Servers added to Customer Specified Placement (CSP)
The IBM Power 770 server (9117-MMD) uses the latest POWER7+ processor and the next-generation I/O technology designed to deliver unprecedented performance, scalability, reliability, and manageability for demanding commercial workloads. The innovative Power 770 model MMD server is a symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), rack-mounted server. This modular-built system uses one to four enclosures that are four EIA units tall and housed in a 19-inch rack. The Power 770 model MMD has two new, powerful POWER7+ processor drawers. Each of the new drawers contains a powerful POWER7+ processor card, an enhanced POWER7+ I/O backplane, and new high density memory DIMMs using 4Gb technology.
The IBM Power 780 server (9179-MHD) uses the latest POWER7+ processor and the next-generation I/O technology to deliver unprecedented performance, scalability, reliability, and manageability for demanding commercial workloads. The innovative Power 780 model MHD server is a symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), rack-mounted server. This modular-built system uses one to four enclosures that are four EIA units tall and housed in a 19-inch rack. New to the model MHD server are two new, powerful POWER7+ processor drawers. Each of the new drawers contains a powerful POWER7+ processor card and new high-density memory DIMMs using 4 Gb technology. IBM continues to use a high-performance PCIe Gen2, I/O backplane introduced with model MMC.
04/24/2012: New I/O drawer added to Customer Specified Placement (CSP)
The EXP30 Ultra SSD I/O Drawer (#5888) provides an ultra dense and ultra high performance option for SSD. Up to thirty 387 GB eMLC solid state drives (#ES02) provide up to 11.6 TB of capacity in only 1U of 19-inch rack space. A pair of very powerful integrated SAS controllers run the drawer’s SSD providing up to 500,000+ IOPS. The Ultra Drawer attaches to GX++ slots in Power 710, 720, 730, 740 without using any PCIe slots in the system unit.
