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IBM Europe, Middle East, and Africa Hardware
Announcement ZG14-0098
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Overview
The new IBM Power S824 server is designed to put data to work. With a strong
commitment to optimizing AIX® and IBM i workloads, these new systems deliver
improved performance compared to the prior generation of systems and additionally
offer unmatched price/performance value for integrated Linux
TM
applications.
IBM Power Systems based 1-socket and 2-socket servers provide the ideal
foundation for private and public cloud infrastructure. The new Power S824 server,
based on POWER8 processors, delivers superior throughput compared to Intel
TM
based offerings for comparable workloads and provides superior economics for
scale-out deployments. For customers looking to deploy advanced analytics, Power
can now deliver superior response time for sorting and querying unstructured big
data sets and can deliver a superior number of business reports per hour for typical
business analytics over competing solutions. For Java
TM
workloads, the new systems
deliver unprecedented performance. Other scenarios for use of the Power S824
include:
•
Consolidating of UNIX
TM
, IBM i, and Linux workloads
• Running analytics and small to midsize database applications on the same server
• Gaining faster insights with the POWER8 processor and smart acceleration
enabled by Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface (CAPI) technologies
• Reducing energy consumption by utilizing advanced energy control
The Power S824 server (8286-42A) supports two processor sockets, offering
6-core or 12-core 3.89 GHz, 8-core or 16-core 4.15 GHz, or 24-core 3.52 GHz
configurations in a 19-inch rack-mount, 4U (EIA units) drawer configuration. All the
cores are active.
The Power S824 server supports a maximum of 16 DDR3 CDIMM slots. Memory
supported are 16 GB, 32 GB, and 64 GB and run at speeds of 1600 Mbps, allowing
for a maximum system memory of 1024 GB.
• Rich I/O options in the system unit include:
– Four PCIe G3 x16 full-height, full-length slots (one CAPI controller per socket
at direct PCIe x16 slot from each socket)
– Six PCIe G3 x8 full-height, half-length slots (1 of 4 PCIe G3 x8 LP slots will not
be available if the high-function RAID controller installed.)
– Eighteen 2.5-in. HDD SFF bays and eight 1.8-in. SSDs
– RAID 0, 5, 6, 10, 5T2, 6T2, and 10T2 support
– One DVD
– One PCIe G3 x8 slot for 1GbE 4-port LAN controller integrated
• Two front and two rear USB 3.0 ports; one rear system port
• Service processor
• 2+2 Redundant hot-swap ac power supplies in each enclosure
• 19-inch rack-mount 4U configuration
• PowerVM®
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.5, or later; SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
(SLES) 11 Service Pack 3, or later; AIX 6.1, 7.1, or later; or IBM i 7.1, 7.2, or
later, operating system support
Key prerequisites
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5, or later
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 3, or later
• AIX 6.1, 7.1, or later