IBM 755 - Manual

IBM United States Hardware Announcement
110-008, dated February 9, 2010
IBM United States Hardware Announcement
110-008
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IBM Power 755 server brings IBM POWER7 technology
to the High Performance Computing marketplace
Table of contents
1 Overview 19 Publications
2 Key prerequisites 20 Technical information
3 Planned availability date 28 Terms and conditions
3 Description 32 Prices
13 Statement of general direction 47 Order now
14 Product number
At a glance
The Power® 755 server is a 3.3 GHz 32-core POWER7 processor-based server
optimized for high performance computing. Up to sixty-four 32-core nodes can be
clustered together, providing up to 2,048 cores. Each 755 server node features:
• Four 8-core POWER7 modules, each with 4 MB L3 cache/core and also 256 KB L2
cache/core
• Up to 256 GB of 1066 GHz DDR3 memory
• Five PCI slots (three PCIe and two PCI-X)
• One slot for a 12X InfiniBand adapter
• Eight SFF SAS bays in the CEC for disk or solid-state drives
• Up to 72 TB disk storage using CEC and EXP12S SAS I/O drawers
• Integrated 10/100/1000 Mb quad-port Virtual Ethernet or dual-port 10 Gb Virtual
Ethernet
• EnergyScale TM technology
• Integrated DVD-RAM drive
• 4U rack-mount configuration
For ordering, contact your IBM® representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM
Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).
Overview
The IBM Power 755 compute node is designed for organizations that require
a scalable system with extreme parallel processing performance and dense
packaging. Ideal workloads for Power 755 include high performance computing
(HPC) applications such as weather and climate modeling, computational chemistry,