IBM 755 manual Table of contents

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

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

14Product 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

•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,

IBM United States Hardware Announcement 110-008

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