IBM United States Hardware Announcement

110-009, dated February 9, 2010

IBM United States Hardware Announcement
110-009
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IBM Power 750 Express server offers IBM POWER7technology and large enterprise compute capability insmall form factor

Table of contents

2Overview 32 Publications
3Key prerequisites 33 Technical information
3Planned availability date 47 Terms and conditions
4Description 51 Prices
23 Statement of general direction 86 Order now
23 Product number

At a glance

The Power® 750 Express server is a powerful 1- to 4-socket server that supports up
to 32 cores with the configuration flexibility to meet today's growth and tomorrow's
processing needs. The server features:
• Powerful POWER7 processors that offer 6-core to 32-core configuration options
– 6-, 12-, 18-, and 24-core 3.3 GHz configurations (6-core processor card)
– 8-, 16-, 24-, and 32-core 3.0 or 3.3 GHz configurations (8-core processor card)
– 32-core 3.55 GHz configuration
• Up to 512 GB of memory with four processor cards installed, optionally
augmented with Active MemoryTM Expansion
• Up to four optional PCIe I/O drawers or up to eight optional PCI-X I/O drawers,
with up to 41 PCIe slots or up to 50 PCI-X slots
• Rich I/O options in the system unit
– Five PCI slots in the system unit
– Eight disk/solid-state disk (SSD) SAS SFF (small form factor) bays -- up to 2.4
TB
– Slimline DVD-RAM
– Half-high bay for tape or removable drive
– Integrated SAS/SATA controller for disk/SSD/DVD
– Optional 175 MB RAID write cache for disk/SSD
– Integrated Virtual Ethernet ports (four 1 Gb or two 10 Gb)
• Rack-mount configuration
•EnergyScaleTM technology