IBM Delivers Enhanced Quad Core Systems

IBM Delivers Enhanced Quad Core Systems

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today launched a broad range of servers designed to provide industry-leading performance in blade, deskside, and rack-mounted systems providing mid-sized businesses the power, speed and flexibility they need to drive business innovation. IBM expanded its leadership POWER5+â„¢ Quad Core module-based family of entry level servers further delivering the mission-critical functionality that clients have come to expect from IBM System pâ„¢ servers. IBM also announced pre-sized, easy-to-buy solutions System p5 Solution Editions that are specifically priced and available in various sizes to better serve clients. In collaboration with leading software vendors, these offerings provide clients with the flexibility required for their specific computing environments.

IBM’s Quad Core Module systems, the computing industry’s only four-core processor module, offer clients the performance, reliability features, and flexibility of a POWER5+ system and are priced competitively with x86-based systems. Additionally, clients get virtualization, improved RAS features and a proven track record for running some of the world’s most demanding applications. IBM Software Group’s new value unit pricing also means QCM-based models are at price parity(1) with x86 dual-core systems on software pricing as well. IBM’s low-end systems have built-in DLPAR partitioning capability with the option of adding our leadership Micro-Partitioningâ„¢ capability.

IBM System p5 Express: Designed and priced specifically for mid-sized businesses With 10 leadership benchmarks(2), IBM’s new low-end systems outperform the competition on workloads including transaction processing, high performance computing, Javaâ„¢ business operations, SAP, floating point, and more. The IBM System p5 550Q beats the new Sun X4600 on 8-core SPECompM2001 by 26%(3) (25,662 units for p5-550Q vs. 20,319 units for X4600). The 2-core p5-520 1.65Ghz (not even the new 2.1GHz system) beats an Opteron-based HP Proliant DL385 by 7%(4) on TPC-C (81,439 tpmc vs. 76,214 tpmc) with a lower $/tpmc ($2.99 vs. $3.91).

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