IBM Power Systems
POWER7® enterprise systems deliver unprecedented performance for both transactional and throughput computing for UNIX®, IBM i and Linux® applications with up to four times the performance and workload consolidation capacity, and three times the performance per watt of POWER6® processor-based systems.
Power Architecture:
- IBM Power® 795 server
The IBM Power® 795 server is designed for enterprises to support large-scale transaction processing and database applications within a highly virtualized system infrastructure, enabling new levels of workload consolidation, resource utilization and efficiency. As the most powerful member of the IBM Power Systems™ family, this server provides exceptional performance, massive scalability and bandwidth to efficiently and concurrently support a full range of complex, mission-critical applications.
IBM Power® 795 server Detail and
Performance Highlights .Processor cores
Clock rates (Min/Max)
System memory (Std/Max)
I/O drawers
Performance (rPerf range)***
Description
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Data Sheet PDF .6 to 256 POWER7
3.72 / 4.25 GHz
8 TB
1 - 32
273.51 / 2,978.16
Equipped with up to 256 POWER7® processors the Power 795 server can scale rapidly and seamlessly to address the changing needs of today’s business climate. Equipped with industry-leading PowerVM™ virtualization, EnergyScale™ technology and affordable Capacity on Demand (CoD) options, the Power 795 helps enterprises increase their productivity and effectively consolidate multiple UNIX, IBM i and Linux® workloads onto a single system.
Extensive mainframe-inspired reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features in the Power 795 help ensure that mission-critical applications run reliably around the clock. IBM clients with installed Power 595 systems may leverage their current investment in Power technology by upgrading their POWER6® system to a Power 795 to increase capacity and improve performance.
With extensive scalability, a fundamentally reliable design and expansive growth potential, the Power 795 server provides a solid foundation on which to deploy the most important applications in today’s large enterprise data centers.
- IBM Power® 780 server
Designed for virtualized consolidation of business critical workloads, the IBM Power® 780 delivers on performance, availability, efficiency and virtualization in a way that is unique in the industry. PowerVM™ virtualization enables continuous, dynamic resource adjustments across all partitions and operating environments, independent of physical placement, to optimize performance while minimizing energy usage. Supported environments include AIX®, IBM i, Linux for Power applications, all on the same system.
IBM Power® 780 server Detail and
Performance Highlights .Processor cores
Clock rates (Min/Max)
System memory (Std/Max)
Internal storage (Min/Max)
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Data Sheet PDF .Up to 96 POWER7 @ 3.44 GHz or
Up to 64 POWER7 @ 3.92 GHz or
Up to 32 POWER7 @ 4.14 GHz3.44, 3.92, 4.14 GHz
64 GB / 4 TB
73.4 GB @ 10K/15K rpm up to
7.2 TB @ 10K rpm
or 4.2 TB SSD (within CEC)115.86 / 886.6
Today’s IT performance means delivering services faster, with higher quality and with superior economics. The emerging measures of IT performance are around agility and the ability to help the business capitalize on new opportunities. IT is measured on providing an infrastructure that can handle rapid growth and manage business risk while meeting higher required service levels. And of course it is expected that new services will be delivered with tighter budget constraints—with IT expected to do more with less and find the lowest cost solutions possible.
IBM Power clients continuously report savings from reduced hardware, software, energy, floor space and administrative overhead. Additional benefits include faster provisioning, increased application performance and an operational availability that can only come from IBM. All of this is delivered on the latest technology from a vendor you can trust. No wonder more and more companies are switching to IBM Power Systems™.
For large database serving, the Power 780 provides a system designed for demanding, critical, back-end workloads. Demonstrating outstanding performance across multiple database solutions and multiple operating systems, the Power 780 shows its true heart and soul when entrusted with a company’s most treasured IT asset, the database.
For transaction processing workloads, the IBM Power 780 server delivers outstanding performance, mainframe-inspired reliability, modular nondisruptive growth and innovative virtualization technologies. These features are integrated to enable the simplified management of growth, complexity and risk.
For complete business system needs, the Power 780 provides a unique combination of performance across multiple workloads and availability features to keep your business running. In addition, PowerVM virtualization helps to maximize your efficiency and nondisruptive growth options are designed to keep your costs in line with your business. With all this coming together in one integrated energy-saving package, the Power 780 makes a great business solution.
Now available in configurations up to 96 POWER7® processor cores, this new version of the popular modular design delivers more capacity with more efficiency than ever before. The result is more performance per system, more performance per footprint, and best of all, more performance per watt. This innovative design approach also enables near-linear scaling and nondisruptive growth while maximizing your investment. POWER7 technology, PowerVM virtualization and the Power 780—the ideal combination for your IT environment.
- IBM Power® 775 Supercomputer
IBM is offering the new POWER7® processor-based Power® 775 Supercomputer to accelerate high performance computing innovation in smarter computing projects such as climate prediction, medical and life sciences, financial services, petroleum reservoir modeling, and industrial design. The Power 775 Supercomputer is a highly integrated, densely packaged, high performance supercomputer in a rack solution, including compute nodes, storage, interconnect fabric and featuring energy efficient water cooling technology.
IBM Power® 775 server Detail and
Performance Highlights .Architecture
DDR3 Memory
PCI Expansion / Node
Disk Enclosure
Ethernet / Drawer
Cooling
RAS features
Operating systems
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Data Sheet PDF .256 POWER7 cores per drawer
128 DIMM slots per drawer
Up to 2 TB per drawer16 - 16X PCIe Gen 2,
1 - 8X PCIe Gen 2Up to 6 per rack
Up to 384 SFF drives per drawerUp to 17 Quad Port 1 Gb
Up to 17 Dual Port 10/100Water (100% Heat capture)
Fully Redundant
Power / Cooling / Management
Dynamic Processor De-allocation
Dynamic Memory chip
& lane Sparing
Highly Granular Fault Containment
Concurrently MaintainableAIX 7.1, Linux RHEL.1
The IBM Power 775 supercomputing server is designed for organizations that require a highly scalable system with extreme parallel processing performance and dense, modular packaging. Use it in clustered configurations of as few as 512 processor cores or in world-class supercomputer configurations of hundreds of thousands of processors. Combined with specialized software from IBM, this system is designed to perform and represents the latest Power technology available.
Ideal workloads for this system include high performance computing (HPC) applications such as weather and climate modeling, computational chemistry, physics, computer-aided engineering, computational fluid dynamics and petroleum exploration that require highly intense computations where the workload is aligned with parallel processing methodologies. IBM has long been a leader in these application areas and, with this system, enables you to innovate and mold the future.
Densely packaging up to 3,072 POWER7 processor cores per rack, each one running at 3.83 GHz, the 256-core Power 775 supercomputing drawer is designed for speed and tuned for performance. With the capability of clustering up to 2,048 drawers together, the total processing power of up to 524,288 POWER7 cores can be assigned to tackle some of the world's greatest problems. Supported by up to 24 TBs of memory and 230 TBs of storage per rack and super fast interconnects, the Power 775 is estimated to achieve over 96 TFLOPS per rack. The radical new approach to HPC represented by the Power 775 system marks another step in the evolution of modular clusters designed to solve the world's greatest problems. Starting with the lightning fast POWER7 processors, adding the ultra dense packaging of 256 cores in a 2U drawer and chilled with new water cooling technology to enable peak performance, this system is a supersonic race car on the IT highway.
- IBM Power® 770 server
Designed for virtualized consolidation of business-critical workloads, the IBM Power® 770 delivers on performance, availability, efficiency and virtualization in a way that is unique in the industry. PowerVM™ virtualization enables continuous, dynamic resource adjustments across all partitions and operating environments, independent of physical placement, to optimize performance while minimizing energy usage. Supported environments include AIX®, IBM i, Linux for Power applications, all on the same system.
IBM Power® 770 server Detail and
Performance Highlights .Processor cores
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System memory (Std/Max)
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Data Sheet PDF .Up to 64, POWER7 @ 3.3 GHz or
Up to 48 POWER7 @ 3.7 GHz3.3 / 3.7 GHz
64 GB / 4 TB
73.4 GB @ 15K rpm or
7.2 TB @ 10K rpm or
4.2 TB SSD (within CEC)140.75 / 606.8
Everyone knows what “performance” meant for IT in the past. Built on the foundation of POWER7® processor technology, Power Systems™ servers and blades continue to excel and extend industry leadership in traditional benchmarks of performance.
But the IT landscape is evolving rapidly. And, as processes become more interrelated and complex, IT is being called upon to solve challenging new problems—and implement new projects, both with higher service levels and in a more cost effective manner. IBM has the systems, software and expertise to help clients implement projects that make their IT an enabler of innovation and a catalyst for business change.
Today’s IT performance means delivering services faster, with higher quality and with superior economics. The emerging measures of IT performance are around agility and the ability to help the business capitalize on new opportunities. IT is measured on providing an infrastructure that can handle rapid growth and manage business risk while meeting higher required service levels. And of course it is expected that new services will be delivered with tighter budget constraints—with IT expected to do more with less and find the lowest cost solutions possible.
IBM Power clients continuously report savings from reduced hardware, software, energy, floor space and administrative overhead. Additional benefits include faster provisioning, increased application performance and an operational availability that can only come from IBM. All of this is delivered on the latest technology from a vendor you can trust. No wonder more and more companies are switching to IBM Power Systems™.
For database serving, the Power 770 provides a system designed for demanding, critical, back-end workloads. Demonstrating outstanding performance across multiple database solutions and multiple operating systems, the Power 770 shows its true heart and soul when entrusted with a company’s most treasured IT asset, the database.
For transaction processing workloads, the IBM Power 770 server delivers outstanding performance, mainframe-inspired reliability, modular nondisruptive growth and innovative virtualization technologies. These features are integrated to enable the simplified management of growth, complexity and risk.
For complete business system needs, the Power 770 provides a unique combination of performance across multiple workloads and availability features to keep your business running. In addition, PowerVM virtualization helps to maximize your efficiency and nondisruptive growth options are designed to keep your costs in line with your business. With all this coming together in one integrated energy-saving package, the Power 770 makes a great business solution.
Now available in configurations up to 64 POWER7® processor cores, this new version of the popular modular design delivers more capacity with more efficiency than ever before. The result is more performance per system, more performance per footprint, and best of all, more performance per watt. This innovative design approach also enables near-linear scaling and nondisruptive growth while maximizing your investment. POWER7 technology, PowerVM virtualization and the Power 770—is the ideal combination for your IT environment.
- IBM Power® 755 server
The Power® 755 server is a four-socket, 4U rack-mounted server that offers 32 POWER7™ processor cores running at a frequency of 3.6 GHz. A maximum of 64 GB of memory is allowed on each processor card, making for a system maximum of 256 GB of memory in the four-processor card system. The IBM Power 755 compute node is designed for organizations that require a scalable system with extreme parallel processing performance and dense packaging.
IBM Power® 755 server Detail and
Performance Highlights .Sockets
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Data Sheet PDF .4
8-core POWER7 with
AltiVec™ SIMD acceleration3.6 GHz
128 GB / 256 GB
73.4 GB / 2.4 TB
Ideal workloads for Power 755 include high performance computing (HPC) applications such as weather and climate modeling, computational chemistry, physics and petroleum reservoir modeling that require highly intense computations where the workload is aligned with parallel processing methodologies. The Power 755 supports AltiVec™ instruction set and extended VSX SIMD, acceleration, which can execute up to eight single-precision or double-precision floating point operations per clock cycle per core to improve fine-grained parallelism and accelerate data processing. Using 12X InfiniBand adapters up to 641 Power 755 nodes, each with 32 cores, can be clustered together providing up to 2,048 POWER7 cores. The IBM High Performance Computing software stack provides the necessary development tools, libraries, and system management software necessary to manage a Power 755 server cluster running AIX® 6.1.
The Power 755 is an ENERGY STAR®-qualified server designed with features to help clients become more energy efficient. The leadership performance of the IBM Power 755 translates into outstanding performance per watt and IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ exploits EnergyScale™ technology enabling advanced energy management features to help clients achieve the most efficient computing environment for their systems.
- IBM Power® 750 Express Server
The Power 750 Express is a one- to four-socket server that supports up to 32 cores with outstanding energy efficiency and diagnostic features in a 4U (EIA Units) package. The Power 750 is an ENERGY STAR®-qualified server designed with features to help clients become more energy efficient. IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ exploits EnergyScale™ technology, enabling Intelligent Energy management features to dramatically and dynamically conserve power. These Intelligent Energy features enable the POWER7 processor to operate at a higher frequency if environmental conditions permit, for increased performance and performance per watt; or alternatively operate at a reduced frequency if user settings permit, for significant energy savings. The Power 750 also implements Light Path diagnostics, which provide an obvious and intuitive means to positively identify failing components.
IBM Power® 750 Express Detail and
Performance Highlights .Sockets
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Clock rates (Min/Max)
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Internal storage (Std/Max)
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Data Sheet PDF .1 to 4
4-, 6- or 8-core POWER7
4-core 3.7 GHz
6-core 3.7 GHz
8-core 3.2 / 3.6 GHz/p>8 GB / 512 GB
73.4 GB / 2.4 TB
52.9 / 334.97
As a consolidation or highly virtualized multiapplication server, the Power 750 Express offers tremendous configuration flexibility to meet the most demanding capacity and growth requirements. Utilize the full capability of the system by leveraging industrial-strength PowerVM™ virtualization for AIX®, IBM i, and Linux. PowerVM offers the capability to dynamically adjust system resources based on workload demands so that each partition gets the resources it needs. Active Memory™ Expansion is a new POWER7 technology that enables the effective maximum memory capacity to be much larger than the true physical memory. Innovative compression/decompression of memory content can enable memory expansion up to 100 percent. This can enable a partition to do significantly more work or enable a server to run more partitions with the same physical amount of memory.
For database servers, the leadership performance of the POWER7 processor makes it possible for applications to run faster with fewer processors, resulting in lower per core software licensing costs. The POWER7 processor contains innovative technologies that maximize performance based on client workloads and computing needs. Intelligent Threads technology enables workload optimization by selecting the most suitable threading mode: Single Thread (per core) or Simultaneous Multi Thread-2 or 4 modes. Consequently, Intelligent Threads technology can provide improved application performance. The Power 750 server can deliver up to 128 simultaneous compute threads. In addition, POWER7 processors can maximize cache access to cores, improving performance, using Intelligent Cache technology. These capabilities are designed to satisfy even the most demanding processing environments and can deliver business advantages and higher client satisfaction.
The IBM Power® 750 Express® server delivers the outstanding performance of the POWER7® processor. The performance, capacity, energy efficiency and virtualization capabilities of the Power 750 Express make it an ideal consolidation, database or multiapplication server.
*** The benchmarks and values shown herein were derived using particular, well configured, development-level computer systems. Actual system performance may vary and is dependent upon many factors including system hardware configuration and software design and configuration.
