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POWER 7 - Redefining the benchmarks against which performance is measured

New POWER7™ processor-based systems represent a true leap forward to more intelligent systems that minimize complexity, automate processes, and reduce energy consumption, downtime and other operational costs. On a smarter planet these are the only benchmarks that matter.

Featuring an innovative multi-core, 45 nanometer design, running at speeds of over 4.1 GHz, with up to 8-cores per socket, and four threads per core, POWER7 systems combined with IBM systems software, middleware and storage deliver unprecedented performance for both transactional and throughput computing.

IBM Power® 780: A new category of scalable high-end servers, featuring an advanced modular design with up to 64 POWER7 cores and the new TurboCore™ workload optimizing mode that maximizes per core performance.

IBM Power 770: Extending the industry’s most successful modular enterprise server with up to 64 POWER7™ cores, higher performance per core, using up to 70 percent less energy for the same number of cores as the IBM Power 570 and optimized for a wide variety of commercial workloads.

IBM Power 755: A high performance computing cluster node with 32 POWER7 cores, ENERGY STAR-qualified for exceptional energy efficiency, and optimized for the most challenging analytic workloads.

IBM Power 750 Express: An ENERGY STAR-qualified midrange business server utilizing POWER7 processors, offering more than five times the performance and six times the performance per watt of comparable 4-socket Sun SPARC64 VII and HP Itanium® servers and delivering more than twice the performance and three times the performance per watt of comparable Sun UltraSPARC T2+ servers*.

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Power Systems - Express Level

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IBM Power Blade Express servers

IBM BladeCenter® delivers an innovative, open design and offers a true alternative to today's sprawling racks and overheated server rooms. So toss your cables and take the leap. Migrate to the blade solution that uses less energy and gives more choices and control.

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IBM Power 520 Express

The Power™ 520 Express server with 1, 2 , or 4 – 4.2 or 4.7 GHz POWER6™ processors offers outstanding business value for many small and mid-sized companies as an affordable UNIX® and Linux distributed application, small database server, or as a complete integrated business system utilizing the IBM i operating system.

Processor cores:	1-, 2- or 4-core POWER6 with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
Clock rates (Min/Max):	4.2 / 4.7 GHz
System memory (Std/Max):	2 GB / 64 GB
Internal storage (Std/Max):	73.4 GB / 30.6 TB (with optional I/O drawers)
Performance (rPerf range):	8.39 / 39.73

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IBM Power 550 Express

The IBM Power 550 Express platform is an up to 8-core server with 3.5, 4.2 or 5.0 GHz POWER6 processor cores and is designed to deliver outstanding business value to medium-sized businesses with the leadership performance, choice of operating systems, and proven virtualization capabilities of PowerVM™. Whether you need a high performing system for application or database serving, a reliable and efficient server consolidation platform, or a scalable complete business system with integrated database and application server, the Power 550 Express server can fulfill your requirements by choosing the AIX®, IBM i or Linux operating systems.

Processor cores:	2-, 4-, 6- or 8-core POWER6 with AltiVec™ SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
Clock rates (Min/Max):	3.5 / 5.0 GHz
System memory (Std/Max):	4 GB / 256 GB
Internal storage (Std/Max):	73.4 GB / 30.6 TB (with optional I/O drawers)
Performance (rPerf range):	15.85 / 78.60

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IBM Power 560 Express

The IBM Power 560 Express platform is an up to 16-core server with 3.6 GHz POWER6 processor cores and is designed to deliver outstanding business value to medium and large organizations with the leadership performance, innovative RAS features, and proven virtualization capabilities of PowerVM. Whether you need a reliable and efficient server consolidation platform or a high performing system for application or database serving, the Power 560 Express server can fulfill your requirements by choosing the AIX, IBM i or Linux operating systems.

Processor cores:	4-, 8-, or 16 core POWER6 with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
Clock rates (Min/Max):	3.6 GHz
System memory (Std/Max):	8 GB / 384 GB
Internal storage (Std/Max):	Up to 2.7 TB per 560 building block
Performance (rPerf range):	31.32 / 100.30

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IBM Power 570

Easily scale from 2 to 32 cores with the IBM Power 570. Unique IBM modular SMP architecture lets you add more powerful POWER6 3.5, 4.2, 4.4 or 5.0 GHz processing capability exactly when needed. Innovative RAS features and leadership virtualization capabilities make the 570 well suited as a mid-range application or database server, or for server consolidation. And the flexibility to use the leading-edge AIX, IBM i and Linux operating systems broadens the application offerings available and increases the ways clients can manage growth, complexity and risk.

Processor cores:	2, 4, 8, 12, 16, POWER6 @ 3.5, 4.4, or 5.0 GHz OR 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 POWER6 @ 4.2 GHz
Clock rates (Min/Max):	3.5 / 5.0 GHz
System memory (Std/Max):	4 GB / 768 GB
Internal storage (Std/Max):	146.8 GB / 79.2 TB (with optional I/O drawers)
Performance (rPerf range):	15.85 / 193.25

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IBM Power 575 Supercomputing node

IBM Power 575 supercomputing nodes are 32-core high-powered building blocks for high performance computing (HPC) applications-featuring ultra-dense packaging and water cooling technology for the latest in green engineering.

Processor cores:	32 IBM POWER6
Clock rates (Min/Max):	4.7 GHz
System memory (Std/Max):	32 GB / 256 GB
Internal storage (Std/Max):	73.4 GB / 293.6 GB per node
Performance (rPerf range):	466.9 (Rmax) and 790 (Rpeak) for 32-cores

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IBM Power 595

The IBM Power 595 server uses 64-bit POWER6 dual-core processor technology in 8- to 64-core configurations with PowerVM™ virtualization and offers leading performance, flexibility, scalability, manageability and security features needed for the consolidation of mission-critical AIX, IBM i, and Linux applications on a single system to save on hardware, software, energy and space costs.

Processor cores:	8 to 64 IBM POWER6
Clock rates (Min/Max):	4.2 GHz / 5.0 GHz
System memory (Std/Max):	16 GB / 4 TB
Internal storage (Std/Max):	1 - 32
Performance (rPerf range):	75.58 / 553.01

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Product range

IBM Power 7Express Level Power Blade Express
IBM Power 520 Express
IBM Power 550 Express
IBM Power 560 Express
IBM Power 570 Express
IBM Power 575 Supercomputing node
IBM Power 595

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POWER 7 - Redefining the benchmarks against which performance is measured

Power Systems - Express Level

IBM Power Blade Express servers

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