The way the world works is changing. Consumers want instant answers and ubiquitous access from smart devices. They are having billions of conversations on global social networks. Businesses selling goods and services to these consumers are utilizing newly available information
Businesses demand IT solutions that are relevant, reliable and faster than ever. Infrastructure and business-specific workloads proliferate as companies grow and address new market needs. The result for data centers is increased server acquisition, expanded storage, new databases, increased floor space and more power consumption.
The document summarizes IBM's Intelligent Cluster integrated high performance computing solutions. It highlights that the solutions are built on innovative IBM System x, BladeCenter, and iDataPlex servers, offering high performance, energy and space efficiency, and easy deployment. Key features include leading-edge technology, high performance for applications like industrial design and manufacturing, reduced power and cooling costs, and a single point of contact for support.
The document discusses how smarter computing through the integration of big data, optimized systems, and cloud computing can unlock new insights and value. It summarizes that 1) big data streams and traditional data integrated in optimized systems can deliver new insights, 2) cloud computing will play a fundamental role by masking complexity and enabling rapid deployment, and 3) IBM's integrated and workload-optimized systems can accelerate the path to smarter computing by tightly integrating appliances and flexible systems.
AMD's Mr. Greg Poole, Director, Worldwide Commercial Field Applications Engineering, AMD, gave a speech at COMPUTEX TAIPEI Industry Forum 2012 on Today’s Cloud Computing Technology Landscape.
Your priorities are clear: meet the challenges of today’s dynamic world, contain costs, deal with IT skill shortages and take full advantage of new technologies. In short, manage your IT organization and infrastructure for business success. With its industry-leading flexibility, BladeCenter is the right choice for your dynamic business...
Learn about IBM Power 710 Express server an economical, high performance, reliable, and energy efficient server. For more information on Power Systems , visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
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This document provides an overview of the IBM System x3650 M3, a dual-socket 2U rack server. Key features include Intel Xeon 5600 series processors with up to 12 cores, support for up to 192GB RAM, up to 16 hot-swap hard drives or solid state drives for storage, 4 PCIe slots, and integrated Gigabit Ethernet. The server offers high availability through features like redundant power supplies and fans, hot-swap components, RAID, and IPMI 2.0 support. It also has tools for easy management and diagnostics locally or remotely. The x3650 M3 is suitable for applications requiring highly available and energy efficient rack servers.
New high-density storage server - IBM System x3650 M4 HDCliff Kinard
IBM System x3650 M4 HD
Flexibility, simplicity and scale for today's workloads.
The ultimate high density storage server, designed for data-intensive analytics and business critical workloads. Optimal blend of performance, uptime, and dense storage.
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Businesses demand IT solutions that are relevant, reliable and faster than ever. Infrastructure and business-specific workloads proliferate as companies grow and address new market needs. The result for data centers is increased server acquisition, expanded storage, new databases, increased floor space and more power consumption.
The document summarizes IBM's Intelligent Cluster integrated high performance computing solutions. It highlights that the solutions are built on innovative IBM System x, BladeCenter, and iDataPlex servers, offering high performance, energy and space efficiency, and easy deployment. Key features include leading-edge technology, high performance for applications like industrial design and manufacturing, reduced power and cooling costs, and a single point of contact for support.
The document discusses how smarter computing through the integration of big data, optimized systems, and cloud computing can unlock new insights and value. It summarizes that 1) big data streams and traditional data integrated in optimized systems can deliver new insights, 2) cloud computing will play a fundamental role by masking complexity and enabling rapid deployment, and 3) IBM's integrated and workload-optimized systems can accelerate the path to smarter computing by tightly integrating appliances and flexible systems.
AMD's Mr. Greg Poole, Director, Worldwide Commercial Field Applications Engineering, AMD, gave a speech at COMPUTEX TAIPEI Industry Forum 2012 on Today’s Cloud Computing Technology Landscape.
Your priorities are clear: meet the challenges of today’s dynamic world, contain costs, deal with IT skill shortages and take full advantage of new technologies. In short, manage your IT organization and infrastructure for business success. With its industry-leading flexibility, BladeCenter is the right choice for your dynamic business...
Learn about IBM Power 710 Express server an economical, high performance, reliable, and energy efficient server. For more information on Power Systems , visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
This document provides an overview of the IBM System x3650 M3, a dual-socket 2U rack server. Key features include Intel Xeon 5600 series processors with up to 12 cores, support for up to 192GB RAM, up to 16 hot-swap hard drives or solid state drives for storage, 4 PCIe slots, and integrated Gigabit Ethernet. The server offers high availability through features like redundant power supplies and fans, hot-swap components, RAID, and IPMI 2.0 support. It also has tools for easy management and diagnostics locally or remotely. The x3650 M3 is suitable for applications requiring highly available and energy efficient rack servers.
New high-density storage server - IBM System x3650 M4 HDCliff Kinard
IBM System x3650 M4 HD
Flexibility, simplicity and scale for today's workloads.
The ultimate high density storage server, designed for data-intensive analytics and business critical workloads. Optimal blend of performance, uptime, and dense storage.
Watch our North America webcast replay here:
http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=670225&s=1&k=FC5CD17AB42385B40BCED29B8B61E2E8&partnerref=IBM09
The document summarizes the IBM Power 730 Express server, highlighting its high performance, density, energy efficiency, and ability to run multiple workloads in a virtualized environment. It details the server's POWER7+ processor technology, memory capacity, I/O capabilities, and virtualization and reliability features. The Power 730 Express is a two-socket rack server supporting up to 16 cores, large memory capacity, and various operating systems.
That’s right…in a recent IDC report, they tell customers don’t “move” to the cloud, “embrace” it. They also tell customers, don’t even consider the cloud without an identity strategy. That’s where WorkloadIQ comes in. In this session you will learn how WorkloadIQ, Novell’s differentiated approach to intelligent workload management, will help you infuse identity and management into your environment. Come see how together Novell and VMware will allow you to not only embrace the cloud, but also ensure that it’s manageable, secure and compliant. This will include demonstrations of brand new WorkloadIQ products - Novell Cloud Security Service, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware, Novell Identity Manager 4, and Novell Cloud Manager along with VMware technologies.
IBM System x servers help organizations reduce costs through higher energy efficiency and increased utilization. They also help manage risk through reliable systems that can adapt to changing business needs. The new generation of System x servers delivers high performance for demanding applications through innovations like support for large memory capacities and many CPU sockets. They also offer improved manageability and service through dynamic management tools.
This document summarizes IBM's virtual xSeries server services which use virtualization technology to provide flexible and scalable computing resources on demand. Key points include:
1) Virtual xSeries allows customers to consolidate multiple applications and workloads onto fewer physical servers to reduce costs and complexity compared to maintaining dedicated physical servers.
2) Resources like CPU, memory, storage can be dynamically allocated as needed to match fluctuating demand rather than being statically overprovisioned.
3) Customers pay only for the resources they consume on a monthly basis based on monitoring of actual usage levels.
VMware PEX Boot Camp - ExpressPod – A New Solution to Accelerate Sales in SMB NetApp
VMware on ExpressPod helps small and midsize businesses simplify and consolidate their IT infrastructure by providing an affordable, easy-to-deploy virtualization solution with automated operations and data protection. ExpressPod is designed to support a transactional/velocity sales model in the SMB segment. This sales-focused session will cover how to leverage ExpressPod to increase revenue and profits. You will hear about the market opportunity, solution positioning, competitive advantages, and tools available to help you sell.
IBM System x servers help organizations reduce costs through higher energy efficiency and increased utilization. They also help manage risk through features that improve reliability like light path diagnostics. The portfolio includes rack, tower, and blade servers for different environments. New additions to the x86 server lineup include the x3620 M3 for value and storage, the extremely dense x3630 M3, and the 4-socket x3755 M3. These servers are designed to improve performance while reducing power costs.
IBM System x servers help organizations reduce costs through higher energy efficiency and increased utilization. They also help manage risk through features that improve reliability and availability. A new generation of System x servers delivers high performance for demanding applications through scalability, virtualization, and management capabilities. These servers are available across different form factors to meet a range of business needs.
The document summarizes a demonstration of Novell's Business Service Management software. It describes organizing infrastructure data from sources like the CMDB into an intelligent service model. Rules can then be applied to model how monitoring information affects the reported state of business services. The demonstration will show a dashboard view of any service, customized visualizations of service relationships, and how critical conditions are prioritized based on redundancy rules.
The document provides an overview of IBM's Starter Kit for Cloud x86 Edition and BladeCenter Foundation for Cloud solutions. It highlights key benefits such as providing a comprehensive, converged integration platform for private cloud with tools for self-service provisioning, rapid deployment, resource management and metering. The solutions aim to help customers accelerate time to market, free up employees' time, and cut costs by increasing infrastructure efficiency.
Acxiom is a marketing services company that helps clients engage customers. It stores data on 500 million people. To scale its services, Acxiom created a cloud computing environment using IBM System x3850 X5 servers. This delivers 5 times the performance of its previous servers at 15 times less cost, allowing Acxiom to dramatically scale without expanding its data center footprint. The IBM solution integrated seamlessly and improved security, automation, and virtualization ratios while reducing power needs by over 1 megawatt.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform provides a complete open source virtualization solution with fully integrated server and storage virtualization capabilities. It allows unlimited guest operating systems and applications to run concurrently on a single physical server with consistent storage access. Advanced Platform also provides live migration, high availability clustering, and centralized management of virtualized environments.
Equalizer OnDemand is a software-based virtual application delivery controller that provides high availability, performance, and intelligent load balancing for virtualized environments running on VMware. It allows organizations to optimize their virtual infrastructure and application delivery resources to reduce costs. Equalizer OnDemand can be deployed quickly with no required hardware and provides unlimited scalability, redundancy and global server load balancing to ensure application availability across data centers.
- CtrlS is the fastest growing company in the growth category, featuring in the top 10. It has designed a highly efficient data center with a PUE of just 1.42, one of the most power efficient in the country.
- The data center features redundant electric power sources, a WAR room, customer office space, and typical floor plans. It provides on-demand disaster recovery services using cloud, virtualization, and backup solutions to reduce CAPEX and offer unmatched flexibility with pay-as-you-use pricing.
- CtrlS claims to deliver up to 40% savings on infrastructure costs through its 600+ worldwide implementations and advantages such as no large capital outlays or long term contracts, security
This document discusses managing change in the data center network as it transitions to a more virtualized environment. It provides a brief history of computing eras from mainframes to today's virtual era. It then discusses the need for data center network management to change to address challenges of legacy networks in supporting virtualization and scale. Specifically, it argues that next generation data center networks require automation, dynamic resource optimization, and unified infrastructure management. The document proposes Dell's Advanced Infrastructure Manager as a way to unify management of compute, storage and networking infrastructure from a single console. It also discusses emerging technologies like iSCSI, FCoE, and DCB that can help data centers transition while maintaining investment in current technologies.
Transforming Your Business Through Cloud ComputingAMD
The document discusses how AMD transformed its business through cloud computing. It implemented a private cloud to centralize its data centers, provide connectivity tools for users, and gain agility. AMD saw significant performance and economic benefits from its cloud, including supporting thousands of engineers, executing millions of tasks per month, and achieving high resource utilization. Virtualization was a key part of AMD's cloud strategy and it virtualized over 75% of servers, averaging 10 virtual servers per physical server.
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This document provides an overview of IBM's Linux virtual services solution. The solution allows customers to replace physical servers with virtual servers running Linux on IBM zSeries mainframes. Key aspects include:
- Virtual servers are isolated and secured within virtual "cages" on the mainframe.
- Customers pay based on the processing, storage, and networking capacity needed via "service units".
- The solution provides reliability, scalability, reduced costs, and simplified management compared to physical servers.
PowerLinux provides a Linux solution optimized for IBM Power Systems servers. It includes industry standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux Enterprise while also utilizing specialized kernels, tools, and virtualization features tuned for Power architecture. PowerLinux supports the PowerVM hypervisor across all Power Systems models from entry-level servers to high-performance systems. It aims to deliver enhanced performance, scalability, reliability, and total cost of ownership over other Linux platforms.
Complexity can work its way into any IT infrastructure, driven by the rollout of new applications and unanticipated change. However, adding servers in response to each demand for new workloads drives the need for more datacenter space, power, cooling, network cabling, data storage
Learn how Cloud is enabled for fast implementation of new workloads, secure application, available with modular and economically efficient design. For more information visit, http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
Learn how the IBM i delivers a highly scalable and virus resistant architecture with a stable database and middleware foundation for efficiently deploying business processing applications. For more information on Power systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
Learn how the IBM Solution for WebSphere Mobile and Web Applications on PowerLinux leverages the WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile. For more information on Power systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
The document summarizes the IBM Power 730 Express server, highlighting its high performance, density, energy efficiency, and ability to run multiple workloads in a virtualized environment. It details the server's POWER7+ processor technology, memory capacity, I/O capabilities, and virtualization and reliability features. The Power 730 Express is a two-socket rack server supporting up to 16 cores, large memory capacity, and various operating systems.
That’s right…in a recent IDC report, they tell customers don’t “move” to the cloud, “embrace” it. They also tell customers, don’t even consider the cloud without an identity strategy. That’s where WorkloadIQ comes in. In this session you will learn how WorkloadIQ, Novell’s differentiated approach to intelligent workload management, will help you infuse identity and management into your environment. Come see how together Novell and VMware will allow you to not only embrace the cloud, but also ensure that it’s manageable, secure and compliant. This will include demonstrations of brand new WorkloadIQ products - Novell Cloud Security Service, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMware, Novell Identity Manager 4, and Novell Cloud Manager along with VMware technologies.
IBM System x servers help organizations reduce costs through higher energy efficiency and increased utilization. They also help manage risk through reliable systems that can adapt to changing business needs. The new generation of System x servers delivers high performance for demanding applications through innovations like support for large memory capacities and many CPU sockets. They also offer improved manageability and service through dynamic management tools.
This document summarizes IBM's virtual xSeries server services which use virtualization technology to provide flexible and scalable computing resources on demand. Key points include:
1) Virtual xSeries allows customers to consolidate multiple applications and workloads onto fewer physical servers to reduce costs and complexity compared to maintaining dedicated physical servers.
2) Resources like CPU, memory, storage can be dynamically allocated as needed to match fluctuating demand rather than being statically overprovisioned.
3) Customers pay only for the resources they consume on a monthly basis based on monitoring of actual usage levels.
VMware PEX Boot Camp - ExpressPod – A New Solution to Accelerate Sales in SMB NetApp
VMware on ExpressPod helps small and midsize businesses simplify and consolidate their IT infrastructure by providing an affordable, easy-to-deploy virtualization solution with automated operations and data protection. ExpressPod is designed to support a transactional/velocity sales model in the SMB segment. This sales-focused session will cover how to leverage ExpressPod to increase revenue and profits. You will hear about the market opportunity, solution positioning, competitive advantages, and tools available to help you sell.
IBM System x servers help organizations reduce costs through higher energy efficiency and increased utilization. They also help manage risk through features that improve reliability like light path diagnostics. The portfolio includes rack, tower, and blade servers for different environments. New additions to the x86 server lineup include the x3620 M3 for value and storage, the extremely dense x3630 M3, and the 4-socket x3755 M3. These servers are designed to improve performance while reducing power costs.
IBM System x servers help organizations reduce costs through higher energy efficiency and increased utilization. They also help manage risk through features that improve reliability and availability. A new generation of System x servers delivers high performance for demanding applications through scalability, virtualization, and management capabilities. These servers are available across different form factors to meet a range of business needs.
The document summarizes a demonstration of Novell's Business Service Management software. It describes organizing infrastructure data from sources like the CMDB into an intelligent service model. Rules can then be applied to model how monitoring information affects the reported state of business services. The demonstration will show a dashboard view of any service, customized visualizations of service relationships, and how critical conditions are prioritized based on redundancy rules.
The document provides an overview of IBM's Starter Kit for Cloud x86 Edition and BladeCenter Foundation for Cloud solutions. It highlights key benefits such as providing a comprehensive, converged integration platform for private cloud with tools for self-service provisioning, rapid deployment, resource management and metering. The solutions aim to help customers accelerate time to market, free up employees' time, and cut costs by increasing infrastructure efficiency.
Acxiom is a marketing services company that helps clients engage customers. It stores data on 500 million people. To scale its services, Acxiom created a cloud computing environment using IBM System x3850 X5 servers. This delivers 5 times the performance of its previous servers at 15 times less cost, allowing Acxiom to dramatically scale without expanding its data center footprint. The IBM solution integrated seamlessly and improved security, automation, and virtualization ratios while reducing power needs by over 1 megawatt.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform provides a complete open source virtualization solution with fully integrated server and storage virtualization capabilities. It allows unlimited guest operating systems and applications to run concurrently on a single physical server with consistent storage access. Advanced Platform also provides live migration, high availability clustering, and centralized management of virtualized environments.
Equalizer OnDemand is a software-based virtual application delivery controller that provides high availability, performance, and intelligent load balancing for virtualized environments running on VMware. It allows organizations to optimize their virtual infrastructure and application delivery resources to reduce costs. Equalizer OnDemand can be deployed quickly with no required hardware and provides unlimited scalability, redundancy and global server load balancing to ensure application availability across data centers.
- CtrlS is the fastest growing company in the growth category, featuring in the top 10. It has designed a highly efficient data center with a PUE of just 1.42, one of the most power efficient in the country.
- The data center features redundant electric power sources, a WAR room, customer office space, and typical floor plans. It provides on-demand disaster recovery services using cloud, virtualization, and backup solutions to reduce CAPEX and offer unmatched flexibility with pay-as-you-use pricing.
- CtrlS claims to deliver up to 40% savings on infrastructure costs through its 600+ worldwide implementations and advantages such as no large capital outlays or long term contracts, security
This document discusses managing change in the data center network as it transitions to a more virtualized environment. It provides a brief history of computing eras from mainframes to today's virtual era. It then discusses the need for data center network management to change to address challenges of legacy networks in supporting virtualization and scale. Specifically, it argues that next generation data center networks require automation, dynamic resource optimization, and unified infrastructure management. The document proposes Dell's Advanced Infrastructure Manager as a way to unify management of compute, storage and networking infrastructure from a single console. It also discusses emerging technologies like iSCSI, FCoE, and DCB that can help data centers transition while maintaining investment in current technologies.
Transforming Your Business Through Cloud ComputingAMD
The document discusses how AMD transformed its business through cloud computing. It implemented a private cloud to centralize its data centers, provide connectivity tools for users, and gain agility. AMD saw significant performance and economic benefits from its cloud, including supporting thousands of engineers, executing millions of tasks per month, and achieving high resource utilization. Virtualization was a key part of AMD's cloud strategy and it virtualized over 75% of servers, averaging 10 virtual servers per physical server.
IBM Managed Hosting - Linux virtual serviceswebhostingguy
This document provides an overview of IBM's Linux virtual services solution. The solution allows customers to replace physical servers with virtual servers running Linux on IBM zSeries mainframes. Key aspects include:
- Virtual servers are isolated and secured within virtual "cages" on the mainframe.
- Customers pay based on the processing, storage, and networking capacity needed via "service units".
- The solution provides reliability, scalability, reduced costs, and simplified management compared to physical servers.
PowerLinux provides a Linux solution optimized for IBM Power Systems servers. It includes industry standard Red Hat Enterprise Linux or SUSE Linux Enterprise while also utilizing specialized kernels, tools, and virtualization features tuned for Power architecture. PowerLinux supports the PowerVM hypervisor across all Power Systems models from entry-level servers to high-performance systems. It aims to deliver enhanced performance, scalability, reliability, and total cost of ownership over other Linux platforms.
Complexity can work its way into any IT infrastructure, driven by the rollout of new applications and unanticipated change. However, adding servers in response to each demand for new workloads drives the need for more datacenter space, power, cooling, network cabling, data storage
Learn how Cloud is enabled for fast implementation of new workloads, secure application, available with modular and economically efficient design. For more information visit, http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
Learn how the IBM i delivers a highly scalable and virus resistant architecture with a stable database and middleware foundation for efficiently deploying business processing applications. For more information on Power systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
Learn how the IBM Solution for WebSphere Mobile and Web Applications on PowerLinux leverages the WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile. For more information on Power systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
The document discusses IBM's Intelligent Cluster solutions for high performance computing. It highlights that the solutions offer:
1) Leading-edge technology with flexibility of choice using IBM System x rack servers, BladeCenter servers, and iDataPlex servers.
2) High performance computing capabilities that can provide up to twice the performance of other solutions.
3) Energy and space efficiency by reducing power and cooling costs by up to 50% while maximizing performance density.
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This document discusses IBM Power Systems cloud solutions for enabling customers to move mission-critical workloads to the cloud. It highlights how Power Systems solutions can improve performance and scalability, provide enterprise quality of service for applications, and automate management and optimization of resources. The document also describes how Power Systems is optimized for cloud environments through features like virtualization, security, scalability, and reliability. It discusses IBM's cloud foundation and entry cloud solutions that are built on Power Systems to help customers transform their data centers and IT infrastructure.
The document discusses how HP Converged Infrastructure provides a path to the cloud for businesses. It addresses challenges of unpredictable workloads and changing business needs by providing agility, efficiency, and automation. HP solutions like VirtualSystem and CloudSystem integrate best of breed components including servers, storage, networking, and management software to enable businesses to build private, public and hybrid clouds and smoothly migrate workloads between on-premises and cloud environments. HP and VMware technologies are optimized to work together to deliver increased consolidation, performance, and simplified management for virtualized environments.
The IBM Power 755 server is a high performance 4U rack-mounted compute node optimized for running computationally intensive workloads in parallel clusters. It features 32 POWER7 processor cores running at 3.3 GHz, supports up to 256 GB of memory, and can be clustered with over 2,000 cores using InfiniBand interconnects. The Power 755 is designed for workloads like modeling that benefit from parallel processing and energy efficient with features to help reduce costs and greenhouse gas emissions.
NEC's HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) provides a complete virtualization solution in a single appliance that is designed for ease-of-use, high availability, and scalability. The HCI solution is powered by Scale Computing's HC3 software and resides on NEC's Express5800/D120h modular server. It continuously monitors virtual machines and infrastructure components to automatically respond to events and maintain application availability while simplifying management. The HCI solution offers a flexible "datacenter in a box" that operates as an elastic private cloud and helps optimize resources and business performance.
Optimized Systems: Matching technologies for business success.Karl Roche
Tom Rosamilia, General Manager, Power and z Systems, IBM Corporation outlines the way business can optimize it's systems to enhance performance, reduce cost per workload and drive innovation. Presented at the Smarter Computing Executive Summit, 25th May 2011.
Open innovation and collaboration between IBM and other technology companies is fueling advances in cloud computing, big data analytics, and software development. This includes contributions to open source projects like Linux as well as partnerships through organizations like the OpenPOWER Foundation. New systems based on IBM's Power architecture and optimized for Linux are helping customers improve the performance and efficiency of their analytics, database, and application workloads.
QLogic TrueScale InfiniBand adapters deliver superior scalable performance, allowing organizations to effectively move applications to larger clusters to achieve the shortest time-to-solution. TrueScale adapters provide the highest message rate and lowest latency for multi-core nodes and large clusters. They also offer the highest overall bandwidth on PCI Express Gen1 platforms. Choosing QLogic ensures reliable interoperability, easier installation through standards compliance, and enhanced reliability as the only supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand solutions backed by a three-year warranty.
This document discusses 8 reasons to choose QLogic TrueScale InfiniBand adapters over competitors. QLogic adapters deliver superior scalable performance through the highest message rates for multi-core nodes and large clusters. They also have the lowest latency when scaled and the highest bandwidth on PCI Express Gen1 platforms. Additionally, QLogic ensures guaranteed interoperability through compliance with industry standards and support for OpenFabrics, as well as enhanced reliability as the only supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand networking products.
QLogic TrueScale InfiniBand adapters deliver superior scalable performance, allowing organizations to effectively move applications to larger clusters to achieve the shortest time-to-solution. TrueScale adapters provide the highest message rate and lowest latency for multi-core nodes and large clusters. They also offer the highest overall bandwidth on PCI Express Gen1 platforms. Choosing QLogic ensures reliable interoperability, easier installation through standards compliance, and enhanced reliability as the only supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand solutions backed by a three-year warranty.
Compact, high-performing servers and streamlined software are a necessity for any data center that provides multi-tier hosted Web solutions, cloud services, or other scale-out implementations. Customers need quick access to Web applications that power their business, and the databases that power those Web applications. In our tests, we found that the Dell PowerEdge C6220 server with an open-source LAMP software stack was able to complete up to 38,793 orders per minute for one Web site, 79,759 orders per minute for two Web sites, and 119,758 orders per minute for four Web sites – all while providing the flexibility, efficiency, and maintenance features that large-scale deployments require.
The document summarizes the IBM XIV Storage System, which provides high-performance, highly reliable enterprise storage. Key points:
- It uses a distributed, massively parallel architecture to deliver consistent, predictable performance without hotspots or need for manual tuning.
- Features include redundant components, quick rebuilds, self-healing capabilities, and support for non-disruptive maintenance and upgrades.
- It offers simple, intuitive management through a graphical interface and mobile app, eliminating most storage administration tasks.
- The system scales linearly through the addition of modules, maintaining performance as capacity increases for both traditional and cloud environments.
The HP ProLiant DL380 G7 Server delivers improved performance and consolidation over previous generations through increased flexibility, enterprise-class reliability, advanced management features, latest Intel processors, and high compute density in a 2U form factor. It is suitable for a variety of applications and rack deployments. Key features include support for Intel Xeon 5600 series processors, up to 192GB memory, HP Insight Control for remote management, and HP Thermal Logic technologies for high efficiency. The server simplifies configuration, installation, and maintenance for improved lifecycle management.
This document summarizes Microsoft's Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 Beta 2. It offers world-class performance by taking advantage of existing technology investments and skills. It makes supercomputing broadly available and accessible to scientists, engineers, and analysts by being simple to manage and easy to use. It also sustains commitment to performance by matching Linux performance on benchmarks and engaging with the Top500 supercomputers.
This IBM Redpaper provides a brief overview of OpenStack and a basic familiarity of its usage with the IBM XIV Storage System Gen3. The illustration scenario that is presented uses the OpenStack Folsom release implementation IaaS with Ubuntu Linux servers and the IBM Storage Driver for OpenStack. For more information on IBM Storage Systems, visit http://ibm.co/LIg7gk.
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Learn how all flash needs end to end Storage efficiency. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
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Learn about vSphere Storage API for Array Integration on the IBM Storwize family. IBM Storwize V7000 Unified combines the block storage capabilities of Storwize V7000 with file storage capabilities into a single system for greater ease of management and efficiency. For more information on IBM Storage Systems, visit http://ibm.co/LIg7gk.
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Learn about IBM FlashSystem 840 and its complete product specification in this Redbook. FlashSystem 840 provides scalable performance for the most demanding enterprise class applications. IBM FlashSystem 840 accelerates response times with IBM MicroLatency to enable faster decision making. For more information on IBM FlashSystem, visit http://ibm.co/10KodHl.
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Learn about the IBM System x3250 M5,.The x3250 M5 offers the following energy-efficiency features to save energy, reduce operational costs, increase energy availability, and contribute to a green environment, energy-efficient planar components help lower operational costs. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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This Redbook talks about the product specification of IBM NeXtScale nx360 M4. The NeXtScale nx360 M4 server provides a dense, flexible solution with a low total cost of ownership (TCO). The half-wide, dual-socket NeXtScale nx360 M4 server is designed for data centers that require high performance but are constrained by floor space. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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The IBM System x3650 M4 HD is a (1) 2-socket 2U rack-optimized server that supports up to 32 internal drives and features an innovative design for optimal performance, uptime, and dense storage. It offers (2) excellent reliability, availability, and serviceability for improved business environments. The server is (3) designed for easy deployment, integration, service, and management.
Here are the product specification for IBM System x3300 M4. This product can be managed remotely.The x3300 M4 server contains IBM IMM2, which provides advanced service-processor control, monitoring, and an alerting function. The IMM2 lights LEDs to help you diagnose the problem, records the error in the event log, and alerts you to the problem. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
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Learn about IBM System x iDataPlex dx360 M4. IBM System x iDataPlex is an innovative data center solution that maximizes performance and optimizes energy and space efficiency. The iDataPlex solution provides customers with outstanding energy and cooling efficiency, multi-rack level manageability, complete flexibility in configuration, and minimal deployment effort. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210744055/IBM-System-x-iDataPlex-dx360-M4
The IBM System x3500 M4 server provides powerful and scalable performance for business applications in an energy efficient tower or rack design. It features the latest Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 or E5-2600 processors with up to 24 cores, 768GB RAM, 32 hard drives, and 8 PCIe slots. Comprehensive systems management tools and redundant components help ensure high availability, while its small footprint and 80 Plus Platinum power supplies reduce data center costs.
Learn about system specification for IBM System x3550 M4. The x3550 M4 offers numerous features to boost performance, improve scalability, and reduce costs. Improves productivity by offering superior system performance with up to 12-core processors, up to 30 MB of L3 cache, and up to two 8 GT/s QPI interconnect links. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
Learn about IBM System x3650 M4. The x3650 M4 is an outstanding 2U two-socket business-critical server, offering improved performance and pay-as-you grow flexibility along with new features that improve server management capability. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210741926/IBM-System-x3650-M4
Learn about the product specification of IBM System x3500 M3. System x3500 M3 has an energy-efficient design which works in conjunction with the IMM to govern fan rotation based on the readings that it delivers. This saves money under normal conditions because the fans do not have to spin at high speed. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210741626/IBM-System-x3500-M3
Learn about IBM System x3400 M3. The x3400 M3 offers numerous features to boost performance and reduce costs, x3400 M3 has the ability to grow with your application requirements with these features. Powerful systems management features simplify local and remote management of the x3400 M3. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Learn about IBM System 3250 M3 which is a single-socket server that offers new levels of performance and flexibility
to help you respond quickly to changing business demands. Cost-effective and compact, it is well suited to small to mid-sized businesses, as well as large enterprises. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210740347/IBM-System-x3250-M3
Learn about IBM System x3200 M3 and its specifications. The System x3200 M3 features easy installation and management with a rich set of options for hard disk drives and memory. The efficient design helps to save energy and provide a better work environment with less heat and noise. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210739508/IBM-System-x3200-M3
Learn about the configuration of IBM PowerVC. IBM PowerVC is built on OpenStack that controls large pools of server, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. IBM Power Virtualization Center provides security services that support a secure environment. Installation requires just 20 minutes to get a virtual machine up and running. For more information on Power Systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
Visit http://on.fb.me/LT4gdu to 'Like' the official Facebook page of IBM India Smarter Computing.
Learn about Ibm POWER7 Virtualization Performance. PowerVM Lx86 is a cross-platform virtualization solution that enables the running of a wide range of x86 Linux applications on Power Systems platforms within a Linux on Power partition without modifications or recompilation of the workloads. For more information on Power Systems, visit http://ibm.co/Lx6hfc.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210734237/A-Comparison-of-PowerVM-and-Vmware-Virtualization-Performance
This reference architecture document describes deploying the VMware vCloud Enterprise Suite on the IBM PureFlex System hardware platform. Key points:
- The vCloud Suite software provides components for managing and delivering cloud services, while the IBM PureFlex System provides an integrated hardware platform in a single chassis.
- The reference architecture focuses on installing the vCloud Suite management components as virtual machines on an ESXi host to manage consumer resources.
- The IBM PureFlex System provides servers, networking, and storage in a single chassis that can then be easily scaled out. This standardized deployment accelerates provisioning of cloud infrastructure.
- Deployment considerations cover systems management using IBM Flex System Manager, server, networking, storage configurations
Learn how x6: The sixth generation of EXA Technology is fast, agile and Resilient for Emerging Workloads from Alex Yost. Vice President, IBM PureSystems and System x
IBM Systems and Technology Group. x6 drives cloud and big data for enterprises by achieving insight faster thereby outperforming competitors. For more information on System x, visit http://ibm.co/Q7m3iQ.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210715795/X6-The-sixth-generation-of-EXA-Technology
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
Programming Foundation Models with DSPy - Meetup SlidesZilliz
Prompting language models is hard, while programming language models is easy. In this talk, I will discuss the state-of-the-art framework DSPy for programming foundation models with its powerful optimizers and runtime constraint system.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/how-axelera-ai-uses-digital-compute-in-memory-to-deliver-fast-and-energy-efficient-computer-vision-a-presentation-from-axelera-ai/
Bram Verhoef, Head of Machine Learning at Axelera AI, presents the “How Axelera AI Uses Digital Compute-in-memory to Deliver Fast and Energy-efficient Computer Vision” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
As artificial intelligence inference transitions from cloud environments to edge locations, computer vision applications achieve heightened responsiveness, reliability and privacy. This migration, however, introduces the challenge of operating within the stringent confines of resource constraints typical at the edge, including small form factors, low energy budgets and diminished memory and computational capacities. Axelera AI addresses these challenges through an innovative approach of performing digital computations within memory itself. This technique facilitates the realization of high-performance, energy-efficient and cost-effective computer vision capabilities at the thin and thick edge, extending the frontier of what is achievable with current technologies.
In this presentation, Verhoef unveils his company’s pioneering chip technology and demonstrates its capacity to deliver exceptional frames-per-second performance across a range of standard computer vision networks typical of applications in security, surveillance and the industrial sector. This shows that advanced computer vision can be accessible and efficient, even at the very edge of our technological ecosystem.
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
zkStudyClub - LatticeFold: A Lattice-based Folding Scheme and its Application...Alex Pruden
Folding is a recent technique for building efficient recursive SNARKs. Several elegant folding protocols have been proposed, such as Nova, Supernova, Hypernova, Protostar, and others. However, all of them rely on an additively homomorphic commitment scheme based on discrete log, and are therefore not post-quantum secure. In this work we present LatticeFold, the first lattice-based folding protocol based on the Module SIS problem. This folding protocol naturally leads to an efficient recursive lattice-based SNARK and an efficient PCD scheme. LatticeFold supports folding low-degree relations, such as R1CS, as well as high-degree relations, such as CCS. The key challenge is to construct a secure folding protocol that works with the Ajtai commitment scheme. The difficulty, is ensuring that extracted witnesses are low norm through many rounds of folding. We present a novel technique using the sumcheck protocol to ensure that extracted witnesses are always low norm no matter how many rounds of folding are used. Our evaluation of the final proof system suggests that it is as performant as Hypernova, while providing post-quantum security.
Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
Have you ever been confused by the myriad of choices offered by AWS for hosting a website or an API?
Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, Lightsail, Amplify, S3 (and more!) can each host websites + APIs. But which one should we choose?
Which one is cheapest? Which one is fastest? Which one will scale to meet our needs?
Join me in this session as we dive into each AWS hosting service to determine which one is best for your scenario and explain why!
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
Diese Themen werden behandelt
- Reduzierung der Lizenzkosten durch Auffinden und Beheben von Fehlkonfigurationen und überflüssigen Konten
- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
Biomedical Knowledge Graphs for Data Scientists and Bioinformaticians
IBM PowerLinux 7R2 server
1. IBM Systems and Technology Power Systems
Data Sheet
IBM PowerLinux
7R2 server
High-performance, energy-efficient server for Linux
The way the world works is changing. Consumers want instant answers
Highlights and ubiquitous access from smart devices. They are having billions of
conversations on global social networks. Businesses selling goods and
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Optimized for emerging and traditional services to these consumers are utilizing newly available information
scale-out Linux workloads
and instantaneous communication capabilities to more effectively market.
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Economical foundation for optimized Born-on-the-web companies are delivering massive amounts of infor-
solutions mation to millions of users. These smart companies have one thing in
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Deploy more secure, highly available common—they are exploiting Linux and emerging solutions on scale-out
solutions and services faster systems to deliver the right services at the right time to the right clients.
Today, organizations of all sizes can participate in the data-centric revolu-
tion, even while struggling with rising costs and limited IT resources.
The IBM® PowerLinux™ 7R2 server is designed specifically as an
economical foundation for emerging and traditional scale-out workloads.
IBM PowerLinux workload optimized solutions, each tuned to a specific
task, are affordable for businesses of all sizes. With solutions ranging
from Virtualized Open Source Infrastructure services to IBM Watson™
inspired big data analytics, companies which previously relied on
x86-based servers can now enjoy the advantages the Power Architecture®
has brought to large enterprises:
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More throughput per server with industry-leading performance
and more efficient virtualization
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Superior reliability and security
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End-to-end system optimization
2. IBM Systems and Technology Power Systems
Data Sheet
A simpler PowerLinux-based IT environment with fewer
servers to manage helps reduce infrastructure costs and frees
IT staff to focus on bringing innovative products and services
to market faster. Replacing aging x86 based Windows servers
with PowerLinux systems and open source applications can
further reduce costs by eliminating high proprietary software
license fees and upgrade charges.
The IBM PowerLinux server and IBM PowerVM® for
IBM PowerLinux are optimized for Linux, providing more
efficient horizontal scaling at price points comparable to
traditional Linux servers. The IBM PowerLinux 7R2 server IBM PowerLinux 7R2 rack-mount server
delivers the outstanding performance and workload-optimizing
capabilities of the POWER7® processor in a Linux only, dense,
Power is effortlessly balancing workload
2U rack form factor that is ideal for running multiple applica-
tion and infrastructure workloads in a virtualized environment.
performance
POWER7 Intelligent Threads technology enables workload
The two-socket, high-performance, energy-efficient server sup-
optimization by automatically switching between one, two and
ports sixteen POWER7 cores and a choice of Linux operating
four execution threads per processor core in order to optimize
systems.
application throughput. In addition, Active Memory™
Sharing technology enables the sharing of a pool of physical
Power is virtualization without limits memory among virtual machines on a single server, helping
Take advantage of the PowerLinux server’s scalability and
to increase memory utilization and drive down system costs.
capacity by leveraging industrial strength virtualization.
These workload-optimizing capabilities can improve application
PowerVM for PowerLinux offers the capability to dynamically
performance and server ROI.
adjust system resources based on workload demands—across
up to 160 virtual machines (VMs)—enabling a dynamic infra-
structure that can dramatically reduce server sprawl by driving
Power is dynamic energy optimization
EnergyScale™ Technology offers Intelligent Energy manage-
higher utilization per core and more throughput per server,
ment features, which can dramatically and dynamically conserve
resulting in significantly reduced costs.
power and further improve energy efficiency. These Intelligent
Energy features enable the POWER7 processor to operate
Power is the performance that delivers at a higher frequency if environmental conditions permit,
business advantage for increased performance and performance per watt; or
The leadership performance of the POWER7 processor makes alternatively operate at a reduced frequency if user settings
it possible for applications to run faster with fewer processors, permit, for significant energy savings.
resulting in lower per-socket software licensing costs. In addi-
tion, a single system can now run more applications and reduce
the number of required servers—lowering infrastructure costs.
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3. IBM Systems and Technology Power Systems
Data Sheet
Power is availability you can count on execution. And, with the Live Partition Mobility feature
The IBM PowerLinux 7R2 is designed with capabilities to of PowerVM for PowerLinux, running workloads can be
deliver leading-edge application availability and allow more moved between servers to eliminate planned downtime.
work to be processed with less operational disruption. RAS
capabilities include recovery from intermittent errors or failover The PowerLinux 7R2 implements Light Path diagnostics,
to redundant components, detection and reporting of failures which provide an obvious and intuitive means to positively
and impending failures, and self-healing hardware that auto- identify failing components. This allows system engineers
matically initiates actions to effect error correction, repair or and administrators to easily and quickly diagnose hardware
component replacement. In addition, the Processor Instruction problems. Hardware failures that may have taken hours to
Retry feature provides for the continuous monitoring of proces- locate and diagnose can now be detected in minutes, avoiding
sor status with the capability to restart a processor if certain or significantly reducing costly downtime.
errors are detected. If required, workloads are redirected to
alternate processors, all without disruption to application
Feature Benefits
Leadership POWER7 ●● ●
Access data faster and improve response time
performance ●● ●
Do more work with fewer servers and benefit from infrastructure cost savings from a reduction in the number
of servers and software licenses
IBM Systems Director Active ●● ●
Dramatically and dynamically improve energy efficiency and lower energy costs with innovative energy
Energy Manager™ with management capabilities
EnergyScale Technology ●● ●
Enables businesses to continue operations when energy is limited
IBM PowerVM for ●● ●
Easily add workloads as your business grows
IBM PowerLinux ●● ●
Utilize the full capability of the system to reduce infrastructure costs by consolidating workloads onto the
Linux operating system
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Provides ability to efficiently handle unexpected workload peaks by sharing resources
Intelligent Threads ●● ●
Optimize performance by selecting the suitable threading mode for your application
Active Memory Sharing ●● ●
Do more with less memory by dynamically allocating memory to virtualized workloads as required vs. inefficient
fixed allocations
RAS Features ●● ●
Keep applications up and running so you can focus on growing your business
Light Path Diagnostics ●● ●
Easily and quickly diagnose hardware problems, reducing service time
Industry standard Linux ●● ●
Access thousands of applications available from the Linux and open source community, ISVs and IBM Software
from Red Hat and SUSE ●● ●
Take advantage of widely available skills and collaboration across the Linux community
Operating System support ●● ●
Choice of Linux operating system from Red Hat and SUSE
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4. IBM Systems and Technology Power Systems
Data Sheet
IBM PowerLinux 7R2 at a glance
Configuration options
POWER7 processor 8-core 3.55 GHz or
modules—one per system 8-core 3.3 GHz
Sockets 2
Level 2 (L2) cache 256 KB per core
Level 3 (L3) cache 4 MB per core
Memory 8 GB to 256 GB of RDIMM DDR3
Active Memory Sharing
Solid State Drives (SSD) Up to 6 SFF drives or
Disk drives Up to 6 SFF SAS drives
Disk capacity Up to 3.6 TB
Media bays Slimline for DVD-RAM
Half height for tape drive* or removable disk
PCI Adapter slots Five PCI Express 8x Gen2 low profile
Standard I/O adapters
Standard Ethernet Four Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps ports
Integrated SAS controller One controller for SAS DASD/SSD with RAID 10 and DVD-RAM
Optional protected 175 MB cache with RAID 5, 6
Other integrated ports Three USB, two HMC, two system ports, two SPCN
GX slots Two GX++
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5. IBM Systems and Technology Power Systems
Data Sheet
IBM PowerLinux 7R2 at a glance
Expansion features (optional) External storage drawers
High-performance PCI adapters 8 Gigabit Fibre Channel; 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Dual port QDR Infiniband
PowerVM technologies
POWER Hypervisor™ Supports multiple virtual machines (partitions) on a single system; Dynamic partitioning; Virtual LAN
(memory-to-memory interpartition communication)
PowerVM for PowerLinux Micro-Partitioning® with up to 10 virtual machines per processor; Multiple Shared Processor Pools; virtualized
disk and optical devices (VIOS); Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM); Shared Dedicated Capacity; Live Partition
Mobility (LPM) and Active Memory Sharing (AMS)
RAS features ECC memory with Chipkill
Processor Instruction Retry
Alternate Processor Recovery
Service processor with fault monitoring
Hot-plug disk bays
Hot-plug and redundant power supplies and cooling fans
Dynamic component Deallocation
Operating systems † The following commercial Linux Operating System releases are supported:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11
High availability IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatform (http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/sys-auto-multi)
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension (http://www.suse.com/products/highavailability)
Power requirements 200 V to 240 V ac, single phase
System dimensions Rack Drawer: 3.4"H × 17.6"W × 28.6"D (86 mm × 447 mm × 728 mm); weight 65 lbs (29.5 kg)‡
Warranty (limited) 3 year Limited Warranty, on site for selected components; CRU (customer replaceable unit) for all other units (varies
by country), Next Business Day 9x5 (excluding holidays), warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available.
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