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IBM POWER7
IBM POWER7
The POWER7® processor-based systems are high-end offerings that are energy efficient designed to manage the most demanding workloads and emerging application. They are specifically for the mid-market customer. IBM came out with one high end servers and four low end servers. These are all part of the 700 series.
The high-end Power 795 server affords customers scalability, energy-efficiency, support for large workloads, and saves on data centre space. The lower end includes the Power 710, 720, 730 and 740 Express. All four new systems will support AIX* 5.3 and 6.1, IBM i 6.1 and the existing versions of Linux*.
The Power 795 replaces the older Power 595 as IBM’s high-end UNIX server. It is based on a similar design to the 595 and also has 32 sockets, but with 8-core POWER7 processors it scales up to 256 cores. By IBM’s own internal relative performance estimates the Power 795 extends the single system performance of the Power Server line-up by a significant amount, over the previous high-end Power 595 as the chart above shows.
The IBM Power 710, 720, 730 and 740 express offer outstanding performance and benefits of POWER7 technology in compact rack-mount or tower packages. These high-density, cost effective servers minimize complexity and provide the memory capacity, internal storage options, I/O expandability and RAS features needed for demanding workloads in today’s high-growth midsize business.
However, these servers do have value for the larger enterprise accounts also. Smaller clients want scalability and resiliency and larger companies can manage demanding workloads. The POWER7’s geared for mid-market allows larger companies to deploy more applications.
♦ The Power 710 Express is a single socket 2U rack server.
♦ The Power 720 Express replaces the previous Power 520 model which was one of the most popular servers in the POWER6 range.
♦ The Power 730 Express is based on the same design as the Power 710 but with two processor sockets instead of one.
♦The Power 740 Express is a dual socket server in either a tower or 4U rack form factor.
♦The Power 750 Express is a 1-to-4 server supporting up to 32 cores using POWER7 6 and 8 core preocessor modules.
♦The Power 740 Express is a dual socket server in either a tower or 4U rack form factor.
♦The Power 750 Express is a 1-to-4 server supporting up to 32 cores using POWER7 6 and 8 core preocessor modules.
However, these servers do have value for the larger enterprise accounts also. Smaller clients want scalability and resiliency and larger companies can manage demanding workloads. The POWER7’s geared for mid-market allows larger companies to deploy more applications.
IBM also has a POWER7 processor-based Smart Analytics System for real-time analytics of large amounts of data. Based on Power 740 Express and new technologies like solid state Flash drives, the analytics system has greater capacity and performance.
One notable change is that the Power Systems servers built on the POWER7 technology can support up to 1,000 virtual machines with PowerVM*. Along with this increased virtualization scalability, Power Systems servers can deliver levels of energy efficiency unmatched in the industry. EnergyScale* technologies dramatically reduce energy cost and management with automated energy optimization.
These POWER7 systems will have a tremendous impact on the industry in terms of price/performance levels and provide the expandability and capacity to enable customers to address new business challenges. IBM’s smarter planet initiative is about helping clients create new value in areas like healthcare, energy, food distribution, water safety, construction, crime prevention and other areas. This technology does that.
IBM achieved several things with this technology:
The POWER7 servers have a full line, now available from the low to high-end. They include the 770, 775, 780 and 795.
IBM has raised the bar across the board in terms of performance, both compared to its own previous generation POWER6 based servers and against the competition, especially given the Intel Xeon 7500 (Nehalem-EX) developments throughout 2009 and 2010.
There has been a reappearance of entry-level 1-socket rack and even tower servers with more options, compared with the previous generation offerings. This shows traditional sized systems still have a high level of interest
