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Today's e-business infrastructure requires IT systems that can meet ever-increasing demands with high reliability and manageability while offering the scalability to grow with the business and the flexibility to rapidly develop and deploy new services. Clustering has become a key approach to delivering high-performance, high-availability computing.
Cluster 1350 Cluster 1600
Cluster 1350 Cluster 1600
Intel® Xeon™, AMD Opteron™ and IBM PowerPC® and POWER5™ processor-based Linux cluster nodes:
Highly scalable Linux® cluster solution for high performance, scientific, technical and commercial computing workloads

Servers:
·  IBM xSeries® 336 and 346
·  IBM 326
·  IBM BladeCenter™ HS20 and JS20
·  IBM AMD Opteron LS20
·  OpenPower™ 710 and 720 (available as management and storage nodes via special bid process)


Processor
·  3.00, 3.20, 3.40 or 3.60GHz Intel Xeon (x336, x346)
·  3.20, 3.40 or 3.60GHz Intel Xeon (BladeCenter HS20)
·  2.20, 2.40 or 2.60GHz single-core or 1.80, 2.00 or 2.20GHz dual-core AMD Opteron (e326)
·  2.20GHz IBM PowerPC (BladeCenter JS20)
·  2.00, 2.40 or 2.60GHz single-core or 2.00GHz dual-core AMD Opteron (LS20)
·  1.65GHz IBM POWER5™ (OpenPower 710/720) or 1.50GHz (OpenPower 720)


Number of servers:
·  Up to 1,024 cluster nodes; 1- to 4-way processors


Interconnect:
·  Gigabit Ethernet
·  Myrinet®-2000
·  Topspin InfiniBand®
·  Voltaire InfiniBand
POWER™ processor-based AIX 5L™ and Linux® clusters:
Targeting scientific and technical computing, large-scale databases and workload consolidation

Servers:
·  IBM System p5 550Q, 550, 520 and 505
·  IBM eServer p5 595, 590, 575, 570, 550, 520 and 510
·  IBM eServer pSeries 690, 670, 655, 650, 630 and 615
·  IBM eServer OpenPower 710 and 720


Processor:
·  1.10GHz to 1.90GHz IBM POWER5™, POWER4+™, POWER4™


Number of servers/ Logical Partitions (LPARs):
·  Up to 64 1-way to 8-way SMPs and 128 LPARs
·  Up to 32 16-way to 32-way SMPs and 128 LPARs
·  Up to 16 48-way to 64-way SMPs and 128 LPARs


Interconnect:
·  10/100Mbps Ethernet (AIX 5L or Linux)
·  Gigabit Ethernet (AIX 5L or Linux)
·  SP Switch2 (AIX 5L and PSSP)
·  High Performance Switch (AIX 5L and CSM)
·  Myrinet-2000 (Linux)

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View Cluster 1600 product details


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