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Flexibility and advanced server technology
The Cluster 1350 allows clients to
choose the right advanced server tech-
nology to meet the specific application
needs of their environment by offering
configurations built on Xeon, Opteron,
PowerPC and POWER5 processor-
based servers.
The Intel Xeon servers are xSeries 336
and 346 and BladeCenter HS20.
Their design leverages IBM Enterprise
X-Architecture™, which combines key
availability features inspired by
IBM zSeries® servers with the
advanced scalability features of
pSeries systems. All of these servers
offer affordable enterprise power and
control for 32- or 64-bit processor-
intensive applications in an Intel
Architecture (IA) environment. In addi-
tion, the BladeCenter HS20 provides
additional benefits for clients who value
the combination of performance, den-
sity, integration and investment
protection offered by its revolutionary
architecture that delivers up to double
the density available in 1U (1 EIA Unit)
servers.
The Cluster 1350 broadens the choice
of superior server technologies with the
IBM _` 326m and AMD Opteron
LS20 for BladeCenter based on the
AMD Opteron processor. Both of these
servers incorporate the latest single-
and dual-core processors from AMD
featuring the unique HyperTransport
technology and integrated memory
controller to help minimize bottlenecks
related to memory access and I/O
bandwidth. These servers are especially
well suited to computationally intense
environments that have previously been
constrained by processor-memory
bandwidth. In addition, the innovative
design of BladeCenter combined with
the new LS20 compute node is an ideal
choice for clients with memory-intensive
applications who value enhanced
processor-memory performance and
compute density, integration and invest-
ment protection in their HPC platforms.
For those clients who prefer a native
64-bit computing platform, the
BladeCenter JS20 blade server further
extends the Cluster 1350 portfolio by
delivering the price/performance capa-
bilities of the IBM PowerPC 64-bit
processor in a blade architecture.
The PowerPC architecture allows the
same operations to be performed on
different data sets in parallel, and is
especially beneficial to clients who have
applications that can exploit the unique
capabilities of VMX (Vector Multimedia
eXtension). This processor technology
combined with IBM’s innovative
BladeCenter architecture offers clients
the opportunity to reach new levels of
peak computing capacity in a single
rack. And now, clients can also choose
the IBM _` OpenPower™ 710
and 720 as the management and/or
storage nodes for their JS20-based
Cluster 1350 installations.
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The availabil-
ity of these OpenPower servers with the
Cluster 1350 allows clients to have a
homogeneous POWER™ processor-
based cluster with binary compatibility
for all software versions across all
nodes.
And, for clients who prefer a standard
rack-mount server for their native
64-bit computing platform the
Cluster 1350 now offers two new
POWER5 processor-based servers. The
IBM System p5 505 provides the per-
formance and reliability of the POWER5
architecture in a space-saving 1U pack-
age. Clients will find this platform ideal
for HPC Linux cluster workloads that
demand superior floating point capabili-
ties as well as scale out and infrastruc-
ture workloads such as file/print, web
serving, networking, security, and sys-
tems management. In addition, the new
IBM System p5 550/550Q server is an
excellent node for compute-intensive
business intelligence and data ware-
house applications, as well as general
HPC applications that require large
local storage and high I/O bandwidth.