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IBM Flex System X6 Compute Nodes Product Guide 1
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IBM Flex System X6 Compute Nodes Product Guide
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The IBM® Flex System X6 Compute Node family, composed of the x880 X6, x480 X6, and x280 X6, are
high-performance scalable compute nodes that are designed to take on the most demanding workloads.
The performance, flexibility, and resiliency features enable the X6 to run mission-critical workloads, such
as key business applications, database, analytics, and large virtual machine deployments.
Each compute node contains two Intel Xeon E7 processors. The x880 X6 uses E7-8800 v2 processors
and supports joining two or four x880 compute nodes together to form a single 8-socket server with 192
DIMM slots. The x480 uses E7-4800 v2 processors and supports joining two x480 compute nodes
together to form a single 4-socket server with 96 DIMM slots. The x280 has two E7-2800 v2 processors
and 48 DIMM slots but does not offer scaling.
Suggested use : Mission-critical scalable databases, business analytics, virtualization, enterprise
applications, and cloud applications.
Figure 1 shows the IBM Flex System X6 Compute Node.
Figure 1. The IBM Flex System X6 Compute Node
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If you are using an application that requires significant computing power and you value the integration of
components that IBM Flex System offers, then the X6 Compute Node family is an excellent choice. It
offers the performance and reliability of the Intel Xeon E7 processor family, plus significant memory and
I/O capacity, and lets you easily scale from two sockets all the way to eight sockets by simply adding
more compute nodes and using the appropriate scalability connector on the front of the server.