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 technologyto the High Performance Computing marketplaceTable of contents
1Overview 19 Publications
2Key prerequisites 20 Technical information
3Planned availability date 28 Terms and conditions
3Description 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
•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,