IBM 755 manual Table of contents

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IBM United States Hardware Announcement

110-008, dated February 9, 2010

IBM Power 755 server brings IBM POWER7 technology to the High Performance Computing marketplace

Table of contents

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Overview

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Publications

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Key prerequisites

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Technical information

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Planned availability date

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Terms and conditions

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Description

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Prices

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Statement of general direction

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Order now

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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

•EnergyScaleTM 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,

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