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* IBM eServer pSeries 690 (7040-681) 8-32 POWER4 CPUs
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The [[IBM]] p690 was, at the time of its release in late 2001, the flagship of IBM's high end [[Unix]] servers ([[pSeries]]) during the [[POWER4]] era of processors. It was built to run IBM [[AIX_operating_system|AIX]] Unix, although it is possible to run a version [[Linux]] minus some POWER4 specific features. It was discontinued in late 2005..<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/highend/p690.html|title=pSeries 690|publisher=[[IBM]]|date=2005-11-08|accessdate=2014-02-10}}</ref>
The [[IBM]] p690 was, at the time of its release in late 2001, the flagship of IBM's high end [[Unix]] servers ([[pSeries]]) during the [[POWER4]] era of processors. It was built to run IBM [[AIX_operating_system|AIX]] Unix, although it is possible to run a version [[Linux]] minus some POWER4 specific features. It was discontinued in late 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/highend/p690.html|title=pSeries 690|publisher=[[IBM]]|date=2005-11-08|accessdate=2014-02-10}}</ref>


It can support up to thirty-two 1.50, 1.70 or 1.90 GHz POWER4+ processors and 1 [[Terabyte|TB]] of [[Random_access_memory|RAM]]. It weighs well over 1000 kg. It was used in a [[supercomputer]] at [[Forschungszentrum_Jülich#IBM_p690_Cluster_Jump|Forschungszentrum Jülich]] in 2004.
It can support up to thirty-two 1.50, 1.70 or 1.90 GHz POWER4+ processors and 1 [[Terabyte|TB]] of [[Random_access_memory|RAM]]. It weighs well over 1000 kg. It was used in a [[supercomputer]] at [[Forschungszentrum Jülich#IBM p690 Cluster Jump|Forschungszentrum Jülich]] in 2004.


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The System p, formerly known as RS/6000, was IBM's RISC/UNIX-based server and workstation product line.

In April 2008, IBM announced a rebranding of the System p and its unification with the System i platform. The resulting product line is called IBM Power Systems.

History

It was originally a line of workstations and servers called RS/6000. The server line was then renamed to the eServer pSeries in 2000 as part of its e-Server branding initiative. With the advent of the POWER5 processor in 2004, the family was rebranded the eServer p5. With the global move of the server and storage brands to the System brand with the Systems Agenda, the family was renamed yet again to System p5 in 2005. The System p5 now encompasses the IBM OpenPower product line. With the introduction of POWER6 processor models, the new models were released under the System p brand, dropping the p5 designation.

Processors

Whereas RS/6000 used a mix of early POWER and PowerPC processors, when pSeries came along this had evolved into RS64-III and POWER3 across the board—POWER3 for its excellent floating-point performance and RS64 for its scalability, throughput, and integer performance.

IBM developed the POWER4 processor to replace both POWER3 and the RS64 line in 2001. After that the differences between throughput and number crunching-optimized systems no longer existed. Since then System p machines evolved to use the POWER5 but also the PowerPC 970 for the low-end and blade systems.

The last System p systems used the POWER6 processor, such as the POWER6-based System p 570 and the JS22 blade. In addition IBM introduced during the SuperComputing 2007 (SC07) conference in Reno a new POWER6-based System p 575 with 32 POWER6 cores at 4.7 GHz and up to 256GB of RAM with water cooling.

Features

All IBM System p5 and IBM eServer p5 machines support DLPAR (Dynamic Logical Partitioning) with Virtual I/O and Micro-partitioning.

System p generally uses the AIX operating system and, more recently, 64-bit versions of the Linux operating system.

Current models

System p was rebranded Power Systems in 2008 and these are Power branded systems with Power7 pocessors.

Express

  • IBM Power 720
  • IBM Power 730
  • IBM Power 740
  • IBM Power 750

Enterprise

  • IBM Power 760
  • IBM Power 770
  • IBM Power 780
  • IBM Power 795

High Performance Computing

  • IBM Power 755
  • IBM Power 775
  • IBM Blue Gene

Discontinued models

BladeCenter

pSeries

  • IBM eServer pSeries 610 (7028-6C1 & 6E1)
  • IBM eServer pSeries 615 (7029-6C3, 7029-6E3) 1-2 POWER4 CPUs
  • IBM eServer pSeries 620 (7025-F80, 6F0 & 6F1)
  • IBM eServer pSeries 630 (7028-6C4, 7028-6E4) 1-4 POWER4 CPUs
  • IBM eServer pSeries 640 (7026-B80) 1-4 POWER3-II CPUs
  • IBM eServer pSeries 650 (7038-6M2) 2-8 POWER4 CPUs
  • IBM eServer pSeries 655 (7039-651) 4-8 POWER4 CPUs
  • IBM eServer pSeries 660 (7026-H80, 6H0, 6H1, M80 & 6M1)
  • IBM eServer pSeries 670 (7040-671) 4-16 POWER4 CPUs
  • IBM eServer pSeries 680 (7017 range)
  • IBM eServer pSeries 690 (7040-681) 8-32 POWER4 CPUs

The IBM p690 was, at the time of its release in late 2001, the flagship of IBM's high end Unix servers (pSeries) during the POWER4 era of processors. It was built to run IBM AIX Unix, although it is possible to run a version Linux minus some POWER4 specific features. It was discontinued in late 2005.[1]

It can support up to thirty-two 1.50, 1.70 or 1.90 GHz POWER4+ processors and 1 TB of RAM. It weighs well over 1000 kg. It was used in a supercomputer at Forschungszentrum Jülich in 2004.

System p

System p was rebranded Power Systems in 2008.

  • IBM System p 520 Express (POWER6)
  • IBM System p 550 Express (POWER6)
  • IBM System p 560 Express (POWER6)
  • IBM System p 570 (POWER6)
  • IBM System p 575 (POWER6)
  • IBM System p 595 (POWER6)
  • IBM System p5 505
  • IBM System p5 505Q
  • IBM System p5 510 (9110-510) 1-2 POWER5 CPUs
  • IBM System p5 510 (9110-51A) 1-2 POWER5+ CPUs
  • IBM System p5 510Q (9110-51A) 4 POWER5+ CPUs
  • IBM System p5 520 (9111-520) 1-2 POWER5 CPUs
  • IBM System p5 520Q
  • IBM System p5 550 (9113-550) 1-4 POWER5 CPUs
  • IBM System p5 550 Express(1.9G, 2.1G)
  • IBM System p5 550Q
  • IBM System p5 550Q Express (4-8 cores POWER5+ CPUs) (Model 9133-55A)
  • IBM System p5 560Q
  • IBM System p5 570 (9117-570) 2-16 POWER5 CPUs
  • IBM System p5 575 (9118-575) 8-16 POWER5 CPUs
  • IBM System p5 590 (9119-590) 8-32 POWER5 CPUs
  • IBM System p5 595 (9119-595) 16-64 POWER5 CPUs

OpenPower

  • IBM eServer OpenPower 710 (9123-710) 1-2 POWER5 CPUs
  • IBM eServer OpenPower 720 (9124-720) 1-4 POWER5 CPUs

IntelliStation POWER

BladeCenter

See also

References

This article is based on material taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later.

  1. ^ "pSeries 690". IBM. 2005-11-08. Retrieved 2014-02-10.
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