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 POWER7
technology and large enterprise compute capability in
small form factor
Table of contents
2 Overview 32 Publications
3 Key prerequisites 33 Technical information
3 Planned availability date 47 Terms and conditions
4 Description 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 Memory
TM
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
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EnergyScale
TM
technology