IBM Power Systems advantages

Power Architecture: Open, innovative, reliable

Today's POWER6 systems combine industry-leading performance, scalability and modularity to enable you to get the most from your investment and build a flexible, dynamic infrastructure that easily adapts and grows based on your business needs.

No other systems provide the performance per processor core, the range of scalability or the ability to incrementally and linearly add performance and capacity. Features include:

• Ultra-high frequency, dual-core processor technology with leading performance across the most-published server benchmarks representing the broadest range of application performance¹
• Mainframe-inspired reliability with instruction retry on alternate processors and storage keys to deliver higher availability and protect your data from corruption
• Modular growth with near linear scalability from the IBM BladeCenter JS43 Express blade server and the IBM Power 570 to enable flexible growth
• EnergyScale technology to reduce energy consumption and provide the ability to manage and customise energy usage
• Live Partition Mobility and Live Application Mobility to sustain system availability during maintenance or re-hosting
• Concurrent firmware and operating system updates to enable applications to remain available.

And, only POWER6 systems have two integrated hardware accelerators designed to enhance performance: Decimal Floating-Point for business applications and AltiVec vectorised math common in support of 3D modelling for high performance computing (HPC).

POWER processor technology is an instruction-set architecture that spans applications from consumer electronics to supercomputers. POWER is built on an open architecture, making it an open ecosystem that supports freedom of design. Learn more about the world of POWER at www.power.org (link resides outside of ibm.com).