Highlights
- Dense Quad-Core Module (QCM) technology for outstanding price/performance
- Up to 16-core scalability with modular architecture
- Excellent for large applications, mid-sized databases and departmental High performance computing (HPC) serving
- Ideal as a Linux® operating system (OS) consolidation server.
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The IBM System p5 560Q mid-range server implements outstanding price/performance, mainframe-inspired reliability and availability features and scalability to 16-cores. Based on IBM POWER5+ processors with simultaneous multi-threading1 and a scalable, 4U (EIA Units) building block package, the 19-inch rack-mount p5-560Q delivers performance, scalability and reliability features for commercial and technical applications. It is well-suited for large single applications, mid-sized databases and departmental HPC serving. As a Linux consolidation server, it is designed to provide superior availability while reducing infrastructure costs.
The System p5 560Q platform offers a powerful one or two building block system that scales from 4- to 16-cores. The system's modular architecture means you can start with a 4-core, single QCM system and easily add an additional QCM to upgrade to an eight-core system. A second building block with two additional QCMs can also be added when more processing power is needed to expand the server to 16-cores. With the System p5 560Q server, you have fewer management challenges because of its symmetric multi-processor (SMP) building block technology. Additional input/output (I/O) and storage capacity come standard with each building block added.
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Product features
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| · 19-inch rack-mount packaging |
| · 4- to 16-core SMP design with unique building block architecture |
| · 64-bit POWER5+ processors |
| · Mainframe-inspired reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features |
| · Dynamic Logical Partioning (LPAR) support |
| · APV1 (option): IBM Micro-Partitioning (up to 20 micro-partitions), Shared processor pool, VIOS with IVM, Partition Load Manager (AIX 5L only) |
| · Up to eight optional I/O drawers (1.8Ghz models only) |
| · IBM High Availability Cluster Multi-processing (HACMP) software support for near continuous operation (Available as separately-priced software product) |
· Supported by AIX 5L (V5.2 or later) and Linux distributions from Red Hat (RHEL AS 4 or later) and SUSE Linux (SLES 9 or later)
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Hardware summary
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| · 4U 19-inch rack-mount packaging |
| · One to two building blocks |
| · Four, eight or 16 1.5 GHz or 1.8 GHz 64-bit POWER5+ processors |
| · Level 2 (L2) cache: 3.8 Megabyte (MB) to 15.2MB (4- to 16-core) |
| · Level 3 (L3) cache: 72MB to 288MB (4- to 16-core) |
| · 2GB to 128GB of double data rate (DDR) 2 memory (32GB maximum on 4-core system; 64GB on 8-core system) |
| · Six hot-plug PCI-X adapter slots per building block |
| · Six hot-swappable disk bays per building block provide up to 3.6TB of internal disk storage |
| · Optional I/O drawers2 may add up to an additional 56 PCI-X slots (for a maximum of 68) and 96 disk bays (28.8TB additional internal disk storage) |
| · Dual channel Ultra320 small computer systems interface (SCSI) controller per building block (internal; RAID optional) |
| · One integrated two-port 10/100/1000 Ethernet per building block |
| · 2 Gigabit (Gb) Fibre Channel (FC), 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 4x InfiniBand adapters |
| · One 2-port USB per building block |
| · Two hardware management console (HMC) and two system ports |
· Two hot-plug media bays per building block.
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