Power Systems server benchmarks

We provide access to customized Power System hardware and software technologies, including:

• POWER6® and POWER7® servers including Power Blade Servers
• AIX® 6, AIX 5L™, and Linux® operating systems
• IBM DS8000®, DS5000, XIV, and SVC
• IBM DB2® and IBM WebSphere®
• HPS Cluster Environment
• Virtualization Technologies
• Previous models are available upon request

In addition we provide:

• Business Intelligence Center of Competency (BICoC) benchmarks
• Commercial benchmarks
• High-performance computing (HPC) benchmarks
• Power on Wheels

Power on wheels

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Introducing Power on Wheels

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Power on Wheels is a revolutionary addition to the Power Loaner Program. Power on Wheels includes the latest POWER technology and is delivered to your location in a self contained shipping box. When the box arrives, it is wheeled to your floor, you open the doors, plug the box into an electrical outlet and within minutes, you start stepping through the graphical user interface to power up and start running the demo software application.

Fully preloaded with a suite of operating systems and middleware configured in a multi-tiered solution, you can observe an on-line stock trading application in action, explore Power technologies such as virtualization, energy saving and server consolidation, and install your own applications to see how they would perform on Power Systems.

Power on Wheels supports Live Partition Mobility and includes a software demo environment with solutions in Application Development and Hosting, Service Automation, Information Management and Smart Analytics. PowerVM® LX86 is included on the system so that you can install x86 applications with no recompilation to test them on Power Systems. You can modify or change the machine in anyway that fits your environment, and can easily integrate the Power on Wheels into your network by using the its integrated network switch and the provided cables.

You can quickly restore the Power on Wheels to its original state at any time -- as it was when it arrived on the floor.

Power on Wheels is ideal for in house benchmarks and proofs of concepts and is available through the Power Loaner Program or the STG Client Benchmark Center in Poughkeepsie.

For more information and demonstration videos, visit our Power on Wheels Wiki

Locations

• Bangalore, India
• Beijing, China
• Montpellier, France
• Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.
• Seoul, South Korea
• Sydney, Australia
• Tokyo, Japan

We provide access to customized Power Systems hardware and software technologies, including:

• POWER6 and POWER7 servers, including Power blade servers
• IBM i and Linux operating systems
• IBM DS8000, DS5000, XIV, and Solid State Drives (SSDs)
• IBM DB2, IBM WebSphere, IBM Lotus® Notes® (Domino®)
• Clustering or cross-site mirroring with switchable DASD towers
• Gigabit Ethernet
• WAN/PBX simulation
• High availability with HSL Opticonnect
• IBM HTTP server, powered by Apache
• Integrated IBM System x adapters
• Logical partitioning (LPAR)
• Storage area networks and servers using fiber channel adapters

Using state-of-the-art tools, we are able to provide you with hands-on experience with Power Systems solutions to help you answer with confidence questions such as:

• How long will my nightly batch job run if I upgrade to a new model?
• Can we handle "xxx,xxx,xxx" interactive transactions per hour?
• What will my response time be if I double the number of users?
• Can my configuration support "xxx,xxx,xxx" client and server users?
• How can I get test time on the latest Power Systems hardware or software releases?
• Have you recently modernized an application? You can test the response time of its new functions against various sets of users.
• Does your application have hot spots? The Benchmark Centers have the tools to help you tune those transactions that seem slow.

Locations

• Montpellier, France
• Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S.
• Singapore