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Platforms:
IBM Power Available On Blades For
High-Volume Market
IBM revolutionized the ultra-dense blade server market with the unveiling
of
the JS20, the industry's first blade server based on POWER architecture. With
this announcement, IBM is extending its blade technology to 64-bit computing
and now offers customers the choice of either POWER processor-based or Intel
Xeon processor-based blade servers.
The eServer BladeCenter JS20 utilizes the POWERPC 970 (PPC 970) processor
and
supports both SuSE Linux and Turbolinux. Additional support for Red Hat Linux
and AIX operating systems will follow. The PPC 970 is derived from the same
POWER4 technology currently used in IBM eServer pSeries systems that support
UNIX and Linux applications.
The BladeCenter JS20 delivers on the promise of IBM eServer -- one platform
that offers businesses the ability to choose the processor and operating
system that best meets their needs. The introduction of POWER architecture
running Linux on the JS20 brings world class, 64-bit performance and
scalability to the ultra-dense, low-cost blade server market.
The IBM eServer BladeCenter JS20 is the lowest priced POWER processor-based
server available on the market with a starting price of $2,699. This price
point provides customers with an affordable high performance solution that can
be clustered together in an ultra-dense server environment. The JS20 will be
ideal for customers in financial services, research and life sciences.
The introduction of the industry's first 64-bit blade server based on IBM
Power architecture is a major step forward in the evolution of blade systems.
IBM now offers blade servers powered by differing processors and running
differing operating systems that are capable of sharing the same chassis at
the same time -- streamlining systems management and allowing the customer to
save time and money.
The IBM eServer BladeCenter JS20 PPC 970 chip has the speed, cache and data
paths that have made the POWER architecture a favorite of IBM customers. At
its heart, the JS20 will have POWER processor-based, 2 way symmetric
multiprocessing (SMP), a base memory of 512MB, and be an ideal solution for
customers in the high performance computing area via its low-cost, high
performance capabilities. Developed with the same BladeCenter chassis features
and systems management features to allow easy integration and low operational
costs, the JS20 adds the reliability and scalability of the POWER architecture
to the BladeCenter family.
IBM eServer BladeCenter Solution For Bioinformatics
IBM also announced the eServer BladeCenter for Bioinformatics, a complete
solution designed to deliver affordable, high-throughput computing and
application performance in life science research environments, where a diverse
set of jobs often makes workload balancing difficult. Widely used applications
for sequence analysis, such as BLAST, FASTA and HMMER, have been ported and
pre-tested to run optimally on the IBM eServer BladeCenter JS20. The new life
sciences offering also can incorporate popular open source middleware and
development tools and implementation services for tailoring the solution to a
customer's environment.
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