Common features
· 24" frame packaging
· 8-way SMP design
· 64-bit POWER5™ technology with single core chips
· Mainframe-inspired RAS including dynamic firmware updates
· Dynamic LPAR support
· IBM Virtualization Engine™ support (optional)
· Micro-Partitioning™
· Shared processor pool
· Virtual I/O
· Virtual LAN
· HACMP™ support for near continuous operation
· Supported by AIX 5L™ and Linux® distributions from Red Hat, Inc. and
SUSE LINUX
· Cluster 1600 support with Cluster Systems Management software
Hardware summary
· Processors in 8-way SMP configuration
· 1.90GHz POWER5 processor
· 1.9MB L2 and 36MB L3 cache per processor
· Two hot-swappable disk bays (up to 293.6GB of disk storage) standard
· Up to 16 hot-swappable disk bays via one I/O drawer for 1.17TB of
disk storage
· Up to 256GB of DDR1 memory
· Innovative, dense 2U design
· Two HMC ports
· I/O node configuration: Four 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet ports; two
HMC ports; RIO-2 hub port for optional I/O drawer, four 133MHz PCI-X
adapter slots
· Compute node configuration: Four 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet ports;
two HMC ports