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Power your planet.Smarter Systems for a Smarter Planet.

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Power is market momentum.Record HP/Sun to Power migrationsRecord x86 consolidationsSmarter Planet implementations

Power is workload optimizing systems.The most powerful, scalable UNIX system ever.

The most affordable Express systems for x86 consolidation.

The future of UNIX: scalable consolidationwith simplified, highly availability cluster management

Power is Integrated Value.Comprehensive Analytics system for rapid insights Scalable, highly available transaction systemsA cloud infrastructure and management stackA complete application development system

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New systems, software and solutions for businesses of all sizes.

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successful Power Migration Factory migrations to date. There were over 500 Power migrations during 2009, with more than 90% from Sun and HP customers (including x86 consolidation). In 1H10 alone, Power® Systems achieved over 500 competitive migrations.

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52% reductionin year over year IT costs through consolidation of x86 onto Power Systems

“The proven reliability of the IBM Power 570 servers meant that the

outages which had been an everyday experience for our employees quickly

became a distant memory.”

David Booth, CIO North American Construction Group

Moving from an x86 infrastructure to Power Systems

The challengeNACG faced challenges expanding as a business and lacked a “single version of the truth” for decision making due to frequent outages and poor performance of its ERP application.

The solutionAfter identifying the root of the issue as the instability of Dell servers running Microsoft Windows, NACG migrated the infrastructure to two Power 570s running IBM i. ERP outages have been essentially eliminated, response times are up to 96% faster, and NACG employees can focus on productive, more profitable work.

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Let’s build a smarter planet.


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A mandate for change is a mandate for smart.

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First, the world is becoming instrumented. Sensors are being embedded everywhere: in cars,

appliances, cameras, roads, pipelines...even in medicine and livestock.

Second, our world is becoming interconnected. Think of a trillion connected and intelligent things, and

the oceans of data they will produce.

Third, all of those instrumented and interconnected things are becoming intelligent.

They are being linked to powerful new back- end systems that can process all that data, and to

advanced analytics capable of turning it into real insight, in real time.


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Retail Banking Telecom Healthcare Traffic Cities

$1.2 trillion

89% 0.5zettabyte

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Amount of excess merchandise in supply chains due to lead times of up to 10 months.

Percent of U.S. money supply that is digital, requiring new technical and management systems to prevent global financial crises.

Or 0.5 trillion gigabytes – the amount of total annual IP traffic globally by 2013.

Number of deaths in the US due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors.

Number of hours lost every year to people sitting in traffic in the U.S.

Percent of the world’s population that will live in cities by 2050, creating new challenges for energy & water management among other concerns.

Organizations of all sizes in every industry are facing the new challenges of a hyperconnected world with highly complex global systems.

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Retail Banking Telecom Healthcare Traffic Cities

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Transactions automatically tracked and analyzed by SuperPharm in Trinidad after implementing a smarter retail solution with WebSphere and DB2 on Power.

Number of Japanese Yen deposited into 400,000 new accounts after only 18 months since startup of SBI Sumishin Net Bank in Japan – an internet-only bank on Power.

Number of new customers per month processed by Bharti Airtel of India on Power Systems and IBM Storage – now servicing over 110 million total mobile phone customers.

Number of annual cases with records entered into a new open, digital medical records system on Linux on Power improving disease management at Peking University People’s Hospital.

Number of fare transactions per day on Power –2x previous capacity –allowing single card payment across tolls, buses and trains for Singapore Land Transport Authority.

Number of devices monitored on the City of Austin, Texas’s smart energy grid that offers 1 million consumers dynamic pricing and lower energy bills, running on Power Systems.

With smarter solutions on Power Systems, clients of all sizes are leveraging new capabilities for significant benefits.

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Making smart systems smarter.

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How much smarter?

6% 30% 70%Percent of available capacity used by the average commodity server.

Number of servers in some organizations that sit unutilized.

Percent of typical IT budgets devoted to managing, maintaining, securing and upgrading systems rather than building new capabilities, services and applications.


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Zero interventionTo add more processing capacity to support application and business growth

“Processor virtualization has given UPMC the ability to provide capacity

very quickly and efficiently at no additional cost.”

Bill Hirsch Manager, Systems Support

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Virtualizing infrastructure benefits large healthcare providers

The challengeRespond to unplanned business functions or applications, bringing them online the same day while reducing administration and infrastructure costs.

The solutionPower Systems and PowerVM enabled the UPMC infrastructure team to focus on development, service improvement and complex issues. CPU provisioning is no longer a major event; it’s a standard procedure.


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5 minutesTime to add a new virtual machine to support business growth

“With PowerVM, we went from 95% to only 5% of our time managing or

reacting to our environment. And, saved the business hundreds of

thousands of dollars in licensing and application fees.”

Nigel Fortlage, Vice President of IT, GHY International

Consolidating infrastructure benefits midsize business

The challengeUpdate a 5-year old infrastructure to support anticipated business growth while providing critical regulatory and tracking data to clients doing trade between Canada and the United States

The solutionEnergy efficient Power 750 with PowerVM running AIX, IBM i and Linux, with full integration with System x and VMWare


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Transformations to “smarter” solutions require smarter systems that:

Scale quickly and efficiently

Optimize workload performance

Flexibly flow resources

Avoid downtime

Save energy

Automate management tasks

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With computational power now being put into things we wouldn’t recognize as computers, any person, any object, any process or service and any organization — large or small — can become digitally aware, connected and smart.

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Virtualization without Limits Drive over 90% utilization Dynamically scale per demand

Dynamic Energy Optimization 70-90% energy cost reduction EnergyScale™ technologies

Resiliency without Downtime Roadmap to continuous availability High availability systems & scaling

Management with Automation VMControl to manage virtualization Automation to reduce task time

Workload-Optimizing Systems

AIX - the future of UNIXTotal integration with iScalable Linux ready for x86 consolidation

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Power 795

✓New High-end✓24 to 256 Cores✓8 TB memory✓TurboCore✓3.7, 4.0 or 4.25 GHz✓1,000 VMs* with PowerVM✓Capacity on Demand✓Enterprise RAS✓24x7 Warranty✓PowerCare

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The capacity of a 128-core HP Integrity Superdome at 50% utilization can be consolidated into a single 32-core IBM Power 795 system book at 80% utilization, reducing by 75% the cores that must be licensed and maintained and dramatically increasing energy efficiency.

Superdome in a Book

Migrate & saveMigrate & save

See Superdome in a Book for more details


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VMware limit is 8 vCPUs

PowerVM scales linearly

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65%PowerVM outperforms VMwareby up to 65% on Power 750, with linear scaling that maximizes resource utilization with 4x as many virtual CPUs1

And POWER7 enterprise servers with PowerVM scale far beyond the limits imposed by x86 architecture and VMware with up to 32x* as many virtual CPUs

PowerVM on POWER7 delivers virtualization without limits with higher performance and scalability than VMware for the same virtual workloads

1 “A Comparison of PowerVM and VMware Virtualization Performance”, March 2010*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only. Some features require the purchase of additional software components.

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Number of cores on 10 128-core HP Integrity Superdome systems utilized at 50% that can be consolidated into a single IBM Power 795 system utilized at 80% - reducing by 80% the cores for software licensing and reducing energy costs over 75%.

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Serious strength.

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Reduce cost and simplify with massive consolidationConsolidating into the Power 795 substantially reduces costs, floorspace and energy

1 IBM Power 57050 Sun T5220s

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Smarter Telecommunications with Power 795

Optimized for Comverse, AsianInfo, Amdocs, and LHS

Scales for massive growth in billing data

Reduces lost revenue due to downtime with “Rock solid” reliability and redundancy

Improves customer retention accuracy by as much as 50% with scalable analytics

Reduces operational costs through large scale consolidation

Power 795 for Operational & Business Support Systems

SMARTER COMMUNICATIONS

DIFFERENTIATE THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

ENABLE NEW SEVICES AND

BUSINESS MODELS.

IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCIES AND REDUCE COSTS

Simplify processes,enhance automation to boost productivity,

increase profitability, enable funding of innovation,

business expansion, and critical transformation initiatives.

1.9 Billionwireless devices will be sold every year starting in 2012


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110 millionCustomers demanding real-time requests for service and support

“Thanks to IBM, we’re working smarter the bigger we get. Our

partnership with IBM has brought us the right level of business

understanding and the right level of technology understanding to achieve

this kind of scale and agility.”

Mehul Shah, Chief Architect, Bharti Airtel

Power enables hyper-growth in telecommunications

The challengeBharti Airtel needed systems automation to handle skyrocketing growth at the same time as helping them raise their average revenue per client.

The solutionAn IBM WebSphere and Power Systems solution enabled Bharti to automate routine transactions and provide flawless customer service.


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Than the largest Sun systems enables telecom companies to grow without disruption as their customer base explodes – while using up to 26% less energy.

4 times more scale

See IBM Power 795 delivers performance with efficiency for more details

Serious scale.

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PowerVM allows a single virtual machine to scale from 1/10th of a POWER7 processor to 256 POWER7 processors – and back - on a Power 795 almost instantly – more than 32x the scalability of any single virtual machine under VMware on HP ProLiant x86 systems. This allows customer relationship applications to get the capacity they need when they need it to maintain service levels – and return it when they are done (something VMware doesn’t do.)

2,560x instantly

Serious responsiveness.


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Number of 64-core POWER6 595 4.2GHz systems that can be consolidated into a single IBM Power 795 high-end system, delivering over 46% more performance, reducing energy consumption by 56% & floor space by 50%.

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Serious consolidation.

Each system64 x 4.2GHz2 TB memory2 I/O drawers,

256 x 4.0 GHz8TB memory

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61% less

Max Utility Power * (kW)

Serious savings.* Statement of Direction

* System operating at nominal frequency under normal operating environment

35% less

Power 795 is designed to deliver large-scale performance at new levels of energy efficiency

Unique innovations can help enterprises reduce costs by simplifying facilities needed for power and cooling

– High-voltage AC inputs

– Integrated Battery Feature

– New high-voltage DC inputs

Power 795 Advanced EnergyScale technology delivers new levels of monitoring and control

– Redundant Thermal, Power Management Devices (TPMD) per node

– Power Capping

– Partition level energy policies* will enable more granular specifying of energy management options


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IBM innovation enabling clients to transform their data centers

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Power Flex

Multi-system virtualization infrastructure providing a highly available and flexible IT environment to support clients’ most demanding business resiliency objectives – leveraging years of IBM innovations.

At least two systems enables active-active availabilityAllocate and rebalance processor and memoryLive Partition Mobility for flexible workload movementSeamless growth with Capacity on DemandOn/Off Processor days for extra capacity

Serious flexibility.

flex·i·ble [ˈflek-sə-bəl] characterized by a ready capability to adapt to new, different, or changing requirements*

*source : www.miriam-webster.com

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Power Flex in action

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Power your planet with Power Systems Express Servers

Power 750 Express

PS700, PS701, PS 702 Express

Power 710 Express

Blades

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4 Socket

Power 730 Express

Power 740 Express

High qualities of service Affordable pricesOutstanding energy efficiency Easy to purchase and deployWorkload-optimizing Thousands of applications Choice of UNIX, IBM i or Linux

Power 720 Express

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New Power Express System Highlights

High performance, energy efficient server ideal for running multiple application and infrastructure workloads in a virtualized environment

High-performance, flexible, configurable and reliable midsize database and consolidation server

Dense, attractively priced 1-socket server thatfits seamlessly in your existing infrastructure

Affordable, flexible rack or tower server for distributed applications or a complete, integrated business system with IBM i

Power 710 Express2U - 1 Socket4, 6 or 8 coresMaximum memory: 64 GBPCIe: 4 low profile

Power 720 Express4U - 1 Socket4, 6 or 8 coresMaximum memory: 128 GB PCIe: 4 + 4 low profileUp to 4 I/O drawers

Power 730 Express2U - 2 Socket8, 12 or 16 coresMaxium memory: 128 GBPCIe: 4 low profile

Power 740 Express 4U - 2 Socket4, 6, 8, 12, or 16 coresMaximum memory: 256 GBPCIe: 4 + 4 low profileUp to 8 I/O drawers

Affordability with outstanding performance, energy efficiency and reliability

All systems above have 3 year warranty


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Power Systems Value for Energy & Utilities

Smart Grids Enabled by Power Systems

Manage tens of millions of sensors and smart energy meters for large scale Smart Grids

Centralize distributed energy infrastructures for management simplification

Bring new grid segments online faster and more efficiently

Accelerates rapid “out of the box” smart grid meter implementations

Cuts implementation time from one year to six months

Shaves 60% off implementation costs

Rock solid” reliability

Transform electric grid, gas, and water infrastructures from a rigid, one-way system to a dynamic, automated and reliable information network

Empower consumers

Ensure cleaner energy supply

Energy & Utilities

Transform the utility network:

Smart Grid ApplianceSmart Grid Appliance

1,000,000,000sThe number of smart grid meter and sensor readings which utility companies must handle securely and efficiently, on a rapidly growing basis


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Transactions per year

Future workloads. Today’s utility is not only thinking about the datacenter managing a PC network or an ERP system. It’s expecting the grid to manage itself, reading meters not once a month…but every 15 minutes and reading smart grid sensors every 2 seconds.

For 500,000 metersover the course of the year…

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500,000Number of devices monitored on the City of Austin smart energy grid

City of Austin, Texas

Smarter grids managed by Power make smarter cities

The challengeThe City of Austin needed to implement a billing system for its Smart Grid initiative to offer unique customer service options including substantial self service and the ability to offer dynamic pricing.

The solutionBy providing consumers with real-time information on their energy consumption, Smart Grids managed by Power Systems help customers better manage their energy usage and lower their monthly bills. Enabled by p5-510


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The amount of transaction capacity gained moving from a p5-510 1.5GHz 1 core to a Power 730 3.55Ghz, 16 core offering to address exploding workload requirements such as reading energy meters, traffic sensors, gas or water meters, or handing exploding telco call volumes.

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Bringing Power qualities of service to telco rack systems: Two-socket performance enables fast scaling Less unplanned downtime by more than 9x versus x86 Handle larger applications with Active Memory Expansion Simplified deployment and management Reduce energy consumption and costs UNIX, i or Linux applications virtualized with PowerVM

Leverage PowerVM and POWER7 to simplify your infrastructure and save on energy, space and management costs

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Number of Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000s managing a telecommunications network that can be consolidated into a single IBM Power 730 2-socket system.

Save 95% of the cores for software licensing, 97% on floor space, and 94% on energy.

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Three year TCA savings when deploying IBM WebSphere Application Server on four, 16-core IBM Power 730 Express systems with PowerVM vs. nine, 12-core HP DL380 G7 with VMware Save 18% on system TCA, 41% on WebSphere license and maintenance, use 56% less space, and 42% of the energy costs.

For equivalent throughput, the IBM Power 730 Express systems with PowerVM utilized at 65% has a $32,000 lower 3-year TCA than HP ProLiant DL380 systems with VMware at 50%.

$244,000 less.

For WebSphere, IBM Power costs less than a pile of HP ProLiants.

Four Power 730 Express

See WebSphere detail for more information

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Solid-State Disk Drive PCIe SAS RAID AdapterHigher I/O performance for the most demanding applications>3X the density of our previous SSD offeringPCIe SAS Adapter / Double-wide card4 SSD bays on card / 1, 2 or 4 SSD modules per adapter177 GB per SSD module / Up to 708 GB per card

Supported OS: AIX 5.3 or later, IBM i 7.1, REHL 5.5 or later, SLES 10 or laterSupported servers: 710/720/730/740/750/770/780


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The challengeTo reduce overnight batch run times and make consumer banking applications available longer.

The solutionLeveraged the ability of IBM i to identify and ‘pin’ heavily used database files to four solid state drives, optimizing batch workload throughput.

40%Associated Bank in Wisconsin reduced overnight batch run time by implementing solid state disks with IBM i

John Techmeier, Systems Engineer Associated Bank

Workload optimization for smarter banking

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Power System Software highlightsAIX 7: The most scalable UNIX, new runtime management and compliance features

PowerHA: Integrated with cluster aware AIX; New Director management and Smart Assist application agents

i Solution Editions: Save on configurations for leading ERP apps

Linux: Easy installation or preload, boost Linux application performance 20% with IBM Advanced Toolchain, and simplify image management with Linux containers

Systems Director 6.2: new availability and security features including Linux support for automated virtual image management, provisioning and relocation


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Virtualization without limits – Run AIX 5.2 WPARs¹ to consolidate & lower cost of

critical business applications on POWER7

Resiliency without downtime– Built in clustering simplifies configuration and management,

plus provides a foundation for PowerHA solutions

Data protection and compliance– Extended administrator options for role based access control– Designed for deployments requiring CAPP/EAL4+ certification

Management with automation– Simplified profile based configuration management²

AIX 7 – the future of UNIX

¹Requires “AIX 5.2 WPAR for AIX 7” product²Requires IBM Systems Director

Download the open beta for AIX 7 now! Download the open beta for AIX 7 now! https://www14.software.ibm.com/iwm/web/cc/earlyprograms/websphere/aix7ob

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AIX Editions– AIX Express Edition

Lower priced edition targeted a low end servers andconsolidation of smaller workloads on larger servers

Includes most of the functionality of AIX Standard EditionVertical scalability is limited to 4 cores and 8GB of memory per core in a single partitionClients can use multiple AIX Express Edition partitions in a single larger server

– AIX Standard EditionSuitable for most UNIX workloadsVertical scalability up to 256 cores (AIX 7)

64 cores (AIX 6)

– AIX Enterprise EditionAIX plus enterprise management Includes AIX Standard Edition plus

Systems Director Enterprise Edition and Workload Partitions Manager for AIX

Vertical scalability up to 256 cores (AIX 7) 64 cores (AIX 6)

Clients can mix multiple AIX editions in the same server

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PowerHA SystemMirror for AIX

Standard Edition 7.1 for data center high availability Delivers a more resilient HA solution with simpler administration

– New integration with cluster aware AIX Provides simple, centralized multi-cluster management

– New director based management interface Out-of-the box deployment of SAP and other popular applications

– New Smart Assists – application agents

Enterprise Edition 6.1 for multi-site resiliency Extending options with new support for Hitachi Truecopy

and IBM DS8000® Global Mirror Adds to existing support for IBM DS8000® Metro Mirror,

SVC Metro Mirror & Global Mirror, EMC SRDF

IBM intends to enhance PowerHA SystemMirror Enterprise Edition to exploit AIX cluster aware technologies*

*All statements regarding IBM's plans, directions, and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice.

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Information into insights– Simplify supplier data exchange with native XML in DB2 for i

Data protection and compliance– Secure critical client data with DB2 column level encryption

Resiliency without downtime– Implement multi-site disaster recovery with PowerHA SystemMirror

Virtualization without limits – Test a new release with ease by hosting i 7.1 on a i 6.1 server

Management with automation– Reduce costs of fix management with IBM Systems Director

Workload optimizing systems– Automate exploitation of solid state drives

Total integration with IBM i 7.1

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IBM i Solution Editions for SAP, JDE, Lawson and Infor

Reduce cost, complexity and implementation time for ERP solutions

Special offer reduces cost of acquisition by up to 35%Optimized install reduces implementation time Total integration with IBM i eliminates complexity ISV optimizations for Power provide leading performanceOffered in partnership with leading ISVs Backed by superior IBM service and support

Configurations for 50, 150 and 500 Users

SAP Business All in One

Oracle JDE

Infor LX (BPCS), System 21 and XA (MAPICS)

Lawson M3 and S3

42%Lower total cost of ownership with Power i than Windows on x86 according to ITG study.

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up to $562 monthly savings

with 3x performance Save up to $562/month with a new Power 720 Express or IBM BladeCenter PS700 with i 7 over an installed iSeries or System i5 solution.

Drive new solutions with over 3x performance, 16x memory capacity of previous POWER5 generation servers for more business growth headroom.

Simplify your IT Infrastructure with IBM BladeCenter and reduce floor space by 42%.

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SeeSee Move up to Move up to Power 720 for full substantiation detail

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Scalable Linux ready for x86 consolidation

Enjoy ultimate flexibility – Support for 1,000s of Linux on Power applications plus a broad range of 32 bit

x86 Linux applications with PowerVM Lx86– Linux Containers enable multiple workloads to share a single OS image for

simplified image management

Reduce floor space, energy costs and administration – Consolidate underutilized or outdated x86 servers– Improve server utilization with PowerVM

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The transformation to “smarter” solutions requires

Smarter Systems

Scale quickly and efficiently

Optimize workload performance

Flexibly flow resources

Avoid downtime

Save energy

Automate management tasks

Smarter Software

Turn information into insight

Increase agility

Connect & collaborate

Enable business and service innovation

Manage risk, security and compliance

Drive enterprise operations effectiveness and efficiency

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Power is integrated value

Turn information into insight

Capture, predict, act on disparate dataAttract, retain more profitable customersOptimize marketplace resources

Transaction resilience and agility

Continuous availability Transparently scale your applicationsRespond to changing business needs

Enterprise qualities of service for Clouds

Elastic scaling for optimal performanceSelf-service portal for rapid provisioningSecurity for mission critical workloads

IBM Cloudburst IBM Service Delivery Manager

IBM Rational Power Appliance

IBM Smart Analytics 7700

Unleash application innovation

Accelerate development lifecycleIncrease quality through standardizationReuse and optimization of core assets

IBM pureScale Application System

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Turn mountains of siloed information into insight for smarter decisions and higher profits

Reduce risk with a completely pre-integrated analytics and data warehouse solution with a single point of support

Protect your investment with a proven, optimized modular design that grows with your needs

*compared to prior

Superior price / performance

Architected for POWER7

4x more cores per module

50% less space and energy

2x storage capacity / data module

Accelarated performance with Solid State Drives

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IBM Smart Analytics System 7700Unparalleled business insight in a flexible, modular design

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250% increase in response rates

Turning information into insight with Power Systems

ChallengeLack of insight into customer buying patterns led to

disapointing campaign effectiveness. Limited understanding of product level sales variances reduced effectiveness of vendor negotiations

SolutionImplemented Information Management and Power Systems to create customer segmentation and market basket analysis. Increased campaign response rates from < 2% to nearly 5%, reduced mailing quantity by 30%, and increased revenue.

High End Retailer drives additional revenue with campaigns while reducing costs by 30%


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IBM CloudburstIntegrated service management platform with network, servers, storage, quickstart services that enables the fastest private cloud deployment today

Power is Optimized for CloudDelivering superior qualities of service for the most mission critical workloads

Leadership virtualization capabilities for superior performance, scalability, security and drive systems up to 90% utilization

Complete resource control with integrated server, virtualization, network and storage management

Improve customer service & reduce IT labor hours by up to 67% with automatic provisioning of resources requested via a self-service portal

A Range of Power Cloud Offerings

“Building a Dynamic Infrastructure with IBM Power Systems” IBM SWG Competitive Project Office, March 2010*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only. Some features require the purchase of additional software components. Please see Disclaimer slide

PowerVM and VMControlIndustrial strength virtualization coupled with automated resource balancing and virtual image management

IBM Service Delivery ManagerPre-integrated software stack for automated IT service deployment, resource monitoring and service availability

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150 companiesSecurely sharing Wuxi’s public cloud in Jiangsu Province, China

Wuxi builds engine for economic growth with cloud

ChallengeCreate a flexible, shared computing resource to reduce the barriers to entry for start-up software development companies and government projects

SolutionLocal businesses can now access a pay as you go virtual enterprise-class data center complete with IBM Software and compute power, tailor fit to their business.

“The solution includes services running on both Intel Xeon and POWER6

processors, but from the end user’s point of view, there’s no complexity and

no concerns about integration.”

Paul Lu, CEO Wuxi Cloud Center

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IBM pureScale Application SystemTransparent scalability and continuous availability

* Source: Whitepaper: IBM WAS Delivers Transaction Integrity for J2EE Applications

Ultimate flexibilityBuy only what you need, when you need itScale up, scale out, scale within

Superior price/performanceDB2, WebSphere Application Server, and

POWER7 deliver industry leading price/performance

Unmatched application integrityOnly IBM maintains consistent transaction

integrity across all test scenarios*Delivers application transparency

90%IBM Power 770 drives up to 90% server utilization with industry-leading virtualization

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Increase agility and unleash development innovation with Rational software for Power Systems

55*All statements regarding IBM's future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only. Some features may require the purchase of additional software components.

Rational Developer for PowerImprove time to market for applications Increase productivity and quality New C/C++ support for Linux developers*

Rational Team Concert for PowerDeploy new collaborative infrastructureAutomate processes and manage sourceEnable common standards and processesNew Support for Linux developers*

Rational CompilersExploit the latest POWER7 architectureMaximize application performanceImprove application portabilityAIX, IBM i, and new Linux compilers

Rational Appliance for PowerAll-in-one appliance for AIX development with packages starting at 5 programmers


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15% increasein development productivity

UniCredit improves developer productivity, testing efficiency

ChallengeUniCredit needed to modernize its development platform to increase development and testing efficiency, and make traditional development more attractive to younger programmers

SolutionUniCredit successfully rolled out a new, modernized infrastructure that is both attractive to a new generation of programers, and much more efficient. UniCredit estimates a 15% increase in development and 10% increase in testing productivity

“The combined toolset of Rational Team Concert for IBM i and Rational

Developer for IBM i provide us with the best support for modern

approaches to software engineering”

Mircea-Dan Antonescu IT Leader, UniCredit Leasing Austria


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Introducing IBM Rational Power ApplianceEverything you need for application development

• Rapid deployment of complete integrated development solution reduces risk and improves time to value

• Consolidated, change management platform

• Eclipse-based tools for AIX*

• Development & test forpureScale Application System and more

*Individual tools available for i and Linux. .1 Based on IBM client study, “Making a Business Case for IBM Rational Developer for i” http://www-949.ibm.com/software/rational/cafe/docs/DOC-3369

20%or more improvement in developer productivity Rational Developer for Power Systems1

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Performance per watt is calculated by dividing the performance in the table above by the recommended maximum power. Actual power used by the systems will be less than this value for all of the systems. The worst-case maximum power requirement for a 32-core Power 795 is 8,341 watts and is available in the Power 795 site planning guide at : http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/powersys/v3r1m5/index.jsp?topic=/p7hdx/power_systems.htm

The power consumption figure of 24,392 W for the HP Superdome was based on the maximum rates published by HP. The information for the HP Integrity Superdome is in “QuickSpecs HP Integrity Superdome Servers 16- processor, 32-processor, 64- processor Systems” available at www.hp.com. The virtualized system count and energy savings were derived from several factors:

The virtualized system count and energy savings were derived from several factors: A performance ratio factor was applied to the virtualization scenario based on SPECint_rate2006. The performance factor is simply the

SPECint_rate2006 result per core of the Power 795 divided by the per core result of the HP systemPower 795 (32-core, 4 chips, 8 cores per chip, 4.0 GHz) SPECint_rate2006 1,440 peak submitted on August 17, 2010. HP Superdome (128-core, 64

chips, 2 cores per chip) 1.6 GHz, SPECint_rate2006 1648 peak published September 2006. Data valid as of 08/12/2010.The reduction in floor space, power, cooling and software costs depends on the specific customer, environment, application requirements, and the

consolidation potential. Actual numbers of virtualized systems supported will depend on workload levels for each replaced system.

Substantiation:

Superdome in a Book

Superdome in a Book : The IBM Power 795 delivers leadership performance and consolidation capability vs. HP high-end servers. For example, the capacity of 1 128-core HP Integrity Superdome utilized at 50% can be delivered with a single 32 core IBM Power 795 server book utilized at 80%, reducing the number of cores by 75% and decreasing energy consumption by up to 65%.

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The IBM Power 795 delivers leadership performance and consolidation capability vs. HP and Sun high-end servers. For example, 10 HP Integrity Superdome 128-core systems utilized at 50% can be consolidated into a single 256 core IBM Power 795 server utilized at 80%, thus saving 80% of the cores for software licensing and reducing reducing energy costs by over 75%.

Power consumption figure of the IBM Power 795 is the max published energy usage in the Power 795 announcement letter + max energy for 1 powered expansino unit. The power consumption figure of 24,392 W for the HP Superdome was based on the maximum rates published by HP. The information for the HP Integrity Superdome is in “QuickSpecs HP Integrity Superdome Servers 16- processor, 32-processor, 64- processor Systems” available at www.hp.com. The virtualized system count and energy savings were derived from several factors:

A performance ratio factor was applied to the virtualization scenario based on SPECint_rate2006. The performance factor is simply the SPECint_rate2006 result per core of the Power 795 divided by the per core result of the HP or Sun system.

Power 795 (256-core, 32 chips, 8 cores per chip, 4.0 GHz) SPECint_rate2006 11,200 peak submitted on Aug 17, 2010. HP Superdome (128-core, 64 chips, 2 cores per chip) 1.6 GHz, SPECint_rate2006 1648 peak published September 2006. Data valid as 08/11/2010.

SPEC® results available at: www.spec.org.

The reduction in floor space, power, cooling and software costs depends on the specific customer, environment, application requirements, and the consolidation potential. Actual numbers of virtualized systems supported will depend on workload levels for each replaced system.

System data for HP from the HP Integrity Superdome Server Quickspecs — specifications available at www.hp.com. Data is current as of August 5, 2010.

Substantiation:

SPECint_rate2006 Results

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Consolidated systems effective capacity requirements are calculated by taking the published peak capacity for SPECint_rate2006 for that system, multiplying times the number of systems consolidated and the estimated percent of utilization for that system. The sum of all systems is calculated to be less than the capacity of the Power 795.

Power 795 (256-core, 32 chips, 8 cores per chip, 4.0 GHz) SPECint_rate2006 of 11,200 peak to be submitted on August 17, 2010.

Reduction in floor space, power, cooling and software costs depends on the specific customer, environment, application requirements, and the consolidation potential. Actual numbers of virtualized systems supported will depend on workload levels for each replaced system.

SPECint_rate 2006 available from www.spec.org as of 8/2/2010

System Name Cores ChipsCores /

ChipThreads /

Core Peak Published UtilizationIBM Power 795 256 32 8 4 11,200 August 2010 80%IBM Power 570 16 8 2 2 478 June 2007 50%HP Integrity Superdome 128 64 2 1 1,648 September 2006 30%Sun T5240 16 2 8 8 183 August 2009 30%Sun M4000 16 4 4 2 152 October 2009 30%HP Integrity rx6600 8 4 2 2 102 October 2006 30%HP DL380 G5 8 2 4 1 150 September 2008 25%

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System Chip/Core/Thread Date SPECint_rate2006 Per core Energy requirement (WATTs)

IBM Power 795 (4 GHz POWER7) 8/256/1024 August 17, 2010* 11,200 43.75 28,529

IBM Power 595 (5 GHz POWER6) 32/64/128 April 2008 2,083 32.5 27,500

Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 64/256/512 October 2009 2,586 10.1 38,180

HP Integrity Superdome (1.6 GHz Itanium 2) 64/128/128 September 2006 1,648 12.875 24,392

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Source: http://www.spec.org *IBM results submitted on August 17, 2010. All other results as of 08/05/10. Not all results listed. Performance per KWatt is calculated by dividing the performance by the recommended maximum power usage for site planning. This defines the requirement for the power infrastructure. Actual power used by the systems will be less than this value for all of the systems. For HP systems, this information is contained in the QuickSpecs available through www.hp.com. For Sun systems, this information is available through the respective Site Planning Guides available through www.sun.com.


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1. SPEC® and the benchmark names SPECrate®, SPECint®, and SPECjbb® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results stated reflect results published on www.spec.org as of August 17, 2010. The comparison presented below is based on a consolidation of a legacy 8-core Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 UltraSPARC T1 servers into a 16 core IBM Power 730. For the latest SPEC benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org.

2. SPECjbb2005 results are:

POWER7: IBM Power 730 Express with 12 chips, and 16 cores and four threads per core with a result of 1,216,983 bops and 76,061 bops/jvm submitted to SPEC on August 17, 2010.

SPARC: Sun Microsystems Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 with 1 chips, 8 cores and 4 threads per core with a result of 74,356 bops and 18,591 bops/jvm

*The virtualized system count and energy savings were derived from several factors:

A performance ratio factor of 24.7X was applied to the virtualization scenario based on SPECjbb2005. Power 730 (16-core, 2 chips, 16 cores per chip, 3.55 GHz) 1,216,983 bops , submitted on 8/17/2010; Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 (8-core, 1 chips, 8 cores per chip) 1.4 GHz, SPECjbb2005 74,356 bops. The performance factor is simply the SPECjbb2005 result of the Power 730 Express divided by the result of the competitive Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 server.

A virtualization factor of 3X was applied to the virtualization scenario using utilization assumptions derived from an Alinean white paper on server consolidation. The tool assumes 19% utilization of existing servers and 60% utilization of new servers. Source - www.ibm.com/services/us/cio/optimize/opt_wp_ibm_systemp.pdf.

Calculation Summary: the Power 730 to the Sun T2000 performance ratio is 16.37 Multiply by 3 for the virtualization factor. Hence, 16.37 * 3 = 49 T2000 servers can be consolidated into one 730 server.

The Sun T2000 is 2U in height and 21 can fit into a 42U rack. The 730 is 2U in height.

One 730 server is 16 cores per system. A Sun T2000 has 8 cores per system. 49 systems multiplied by 8 cores is 392 cores. The Power 730 Express has 95% less cores.

Power consumption figures of 1100W for the IBM Power 730 and 450W for the Sun T2000 were based on the maximum rates published by IBM and Sun Microsystems, respectively. This information for the 730 is in "Model 8231-E2B server specifications" available at http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/index.wss - search for Power 730. Sun T2000 Maximum AC power consumption of 450 WATTs was sourced from Sun SPAC Enterprise T2000 Servers site planning guide at http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2545-11 as of 8/17/2010

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WebSphere Scenario$244,000 less. Three year TCA savings when deploying IBM WebSphere Application Server on four, 16-core IBM Power 730 Express systems with PowerVM vs. nine, 12-core HP DL380 G7 with VMware Save 18% on system TCA, 41% on WebSphere license and maintenance, use 56% less space, and 42% of the energy costs.Based on estimated equivalent throughput workloads on a Power 730 Express vs. a HP ProLiant DL380 G7 system. The virtualized system count was derived from the following factors: A performance factor was applied to the virtualization scenario based on SPEC®results source: www.spec.org as of August 12, 2010. IBM Power 730 Express (16-core, 2 chips, 8 cores per chip, 3.55 GHz) SPECjbb2005 1,216,983bops, 76,061bops/JVM; A HP ProLiant DL360 G7 (12-core, 2 chips, 6 cores/chip, 2.93 GHz) SPECjbb2005 875,975 bops, 145,996 bops/JVM performance was used with equivalent processor and memory for the HP ProLiant DL380 G7. A 20% performance adjustment to the HP ProLiant DL380 G7 for VMware based on results published by VMware and IBM in conjunction with VMware that demonstrate a 10-20% performance overhead. A virtualized utilization factor of 65% was assumed for the Power 730 Express and 50% for the HP ProLiant DL380 G7. The difference in virtualization is based on the additional capacity of the Power 730 in a virtual environment and targeting similar headroom for each system for peaks in demand.

SystemBenchmark

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HP DL380 G7 875.98 12 12-core, 2.93 Ghz 350.39 9 9 108

Power 730 1,216.98 16 16-core, 3.55 GHz 832.14 3.8 4 64

Software savings are based on IBM SWG 70 PVUs per core on both systems and a difference of 108 cores for the HP ProLiant systems (7,560 total PVUs) vs. 64 cores on the Power 730 (4,480 total PVUs). Power consumption figures of 1,100 W for the IBM Power 730 Express and 848 W for the HP ProLiant DL380 G7 were based on the maximum rates published by IBM and HP respectively. Actual power usage will be less for systems in normal operation. The data for the HP ProLiant systems came from their respective Datasheets available through www.hp.com as of August 12, 2010. The reduction, if any, in floor space, power, cooling and software costs depends on the specific customer, environment, application requirements, and the consolidation potential. Actual numbers of virtualized systems supported will depend on workload levels for each replaced system. Prices for HP ProLiant DL380 G7 systems from www.hp.com. IBM prices are list price in USD. Prices from resellers may vary. Prices are subject to change without notice.

SPECjbb2005 results (bops) for the IBM Power 730 and HP ProLiant DL360 G7

System Name JVMJVM

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IBM Power 730 Express JRE 1.6.0 (32-bit) IBM J9 2.4 AIX [build jvmap3260sr7-20091214_49398(SR7)] 16 16 2 Yes 1,216,983 76,061

HP ProLiant DL360 G7 IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, J2RE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 Windows Server 2008 amd64-64 jvmwa6460sr5-20090519_35743 (JIT enabled, AOT enabled) 6 12 2 Yes 875,975 145,996

SPEC and the benchmark names SPECrate, SPECint, and SPECjbb are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Benchmark results in the table above reflect results published on www.spec.org (link resides outside ibm.com) as of August 12, 2010.

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This document was developed for IBM offerings in the United States as of the date of publication. IBM may not make these offerings available in other countries, and the information is subject to change without notice. Consult your local IBM business contact for information on the IBM offerings available in your area.Information in this document concerning non-IBM products was obtained from the suppliers of these products or other public sources. Questions on the capabilities of non-IBM products should be addressed to the suppliers of those products.IBM may have patents or pending patent applications covering subject matter in this document. The furnishing of this document does not give you any license to these patents. Send license inquires, in writing, to IBM Director of Licensing, IBM Corporation, New Castle Drive, Armonk, NY 10504-1785 USA. All statements regarding IBM future direction and intent are subject to change or withdrawal without notice, and represent goals and objectives only. The information contained in this document has not been submitted to any formal IBM test and is provided "AS IS" with no warranties or guarantees either expressed or implied.All examples cited or described in this document are presented as illustrations of the manner in which some IBM products can be used and the results that may be achieved. Actual environmental costs and performance characteristics will vary depending on individual client configurations and conditions.IBM Global Financing offerings are provided through IBM Credit Corporation in the United States and other IBM subsidiaries and divisions worldwide to qualified commercial and government clients. Rates are based on a client's credit rating, financing terms, offering type, equipment type and options, and may vary by country. Other restrictions may apply. Rates and offerings are subject to change, extension or withdrawal without notice.IBM is not responsible for printing errors in this document that result in pricing or information inaccuracies.All prices shown are IBM's United States suggested list prices and are subject to change without notice; reseller prices may vary.IBM hardware products are manufactured from new parts, or new and serviceable used parts. Regardless, our warranty terms apply.Any performance data contained in this document was determined in a controlled environment. Actual results may vary significantly and are dependent on many factors including system hardware configuration and software design and configuration. Some measurements quoted in this document may have been made on development-level systems. There is no guarantee these measurements will be the same on generally-available systems. Some measurements quoted in this document may have been estimated through extrapolation. Users of this document should verify the applicable data for their specific environment.

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The IBM benchmarks results shown herein were derived using particular, well configured, development-level and generally-available computer systems. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems they are considering buying and should consider conducting application oriented testing. For additional information about the benchmarks, values and systems tested, contact your local IBM office or IBM authorized reseller or access the Web site of the benchmark consortium or benchmark vendor.

IBM benchmark results can be found in the IBM Power Systems Performance Report at http://www.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/system_perf.html .

All performance measurements were made with AIX or AIX 5L operating systems unless otherwise indicated to have used Linux. For new and upgraded systems, AIX Version 4.3, AIX 5L or AIX 6 were used. All other systems used previous versions of AIX. The SPEC CPU2006, SPEC2000, LINPACK, and Technical Computing benchmarks were compiled using IBM's high performance C, C++, and FORTRAN compilers for AIX 5L and Linux. For new and upgraded systems, the latest versions of these compilers were used: XL C Enterprise Edition V7.0 for AIX, XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V7.0 for AIX, XL FORTRAN Enterprise Edition V9.1 for AIX, XL C/C++ Advanced Edition V7.0 for Linux, and XL FORTRAN Advanced Edition V9.1 for Linux. The SPEC CPU95 (retired in 2000) tests used preprocessors, KAP 3.2 for FORTRAN and KAP/C 1.4.2 from Kuck & Associates and VAST-2 v4.01X8 from Pacific-Sierra Research. The preprocessors were purchased separately from these vendors. Other software packages like IBM ESSL for AIX, MASS for AIX and Kazushige Goto’s BLAS Library for Linux were also used in some benchmarks.

For a definition/explanation of each benchmark and the full list of detailed results, visit the Web site of the benchmark consortium or benchmark vendor.

TPC http://www.tpc.orgSPEC http://www.spec.orgLINPACK http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/performance.pdfPro/E http://www.proe.comGPC http://www.spec.org/gpcVolanoMark http://www.volano.comSTREAM http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/SAP http://www.sap.com/benchmark/Oracle Applications http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/PeopleSoft - To get information on PeopleSoft benchmarks, contact PeopleSoft directly Siebel http://www.siebel.com/crm/performance_benchmark/index.shtmBaan http://www.ssaglobal.comFluent http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/index.htmTOP500 Supercomputers http://www.top500.org/Ideas International http://www.ideasinternational.com/benchmark/bench.htmlStorage Performance Council http://www.storageperformance.org/results

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Notes on HPC benchmarks and valuesThe IBM benchmarks results shown herein were derived using particular, well configured, development-level and generally-available computer systems. Buyers should consult other sources of information to evaluate the performance of systems they are considering buying and should consider conducting application oriented testing. For additional information about the benchmarks, values and systems tested, contact your local IBM office or IBM authorized reseller or access the Web site of the benchmark consortium or benchmark vendor.

IBM benchmark results can be found in the IBM Power Systems Performance Report at http://www.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/system_perf.html .

All performance measurements were made with AIX or AIX 5L operating systems unless otherwise indicated to have used Linux. For new and upgraded systems, AIX Version 4.3 or AIX 5L were used. All other systems used previous versions of AIX. The SPEC CPU2000, LINPACK, and Technical Computing benchmarks were compiled using IBM's high performance C, C++, and FORTRAN compilers for AIX 5L and Linux. For new and upgraded systems, the latest versions of these compilers were used: XL C Enterprise Edition V7.0 for AIX, XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V7.0 for AIX, XL FORTRAN Enterprise Edition V9.1 for AIX, XL C/C++ Advanced Edition V7.0 for Linux, and XL FORTRAN Advanced Edition V9.1 for Linux. The SPEC CPU95 (retired in 2000) tests used preprocessors, KAP 3.2 for FORTRAN and KAP/C 1.4.2 from Kuck & Associates and VAST-2 v4.01X8 from Pacific-Sierra Research. The preprocessors were purchased separately from these vendors. Other software packages like IBM ESSL for AIX, MASS for AIX and Kazushige Goto’s BLAS Library for Linux were also used in some benchmarks.

For a definition/explanation of each benchmark and the full list of detailed results, visit the Web site of the benchmark consortium or benchmark vendor.SPEC http://www.spec.orgLINPACK http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/performance.pdfPro/E http://www.proe.comGPC http://www.spec.org/gpcSTREAM http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/Fluent http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/index.htmTOP500 Supercomputers http://www.top500.org/AMBER http://amber.scripps.edu/FLUENT http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/fl5bench/index.htmGAMESS http://www.msg.chem.iastate.edu/gamessGAUSSIAN http://www.gaussian.comANSYS http://www.ansys.com/services/hardware-support-db.htm

Click on the "Benchmarks" icon on the left hand side frame to expand. Click on "Benchmark Results in a Table" icon for benchmark results.ABAQUS http://www.simulia.com/support/v68/v68_performance.phpECLIPSE http://www.sis.slb.com/content/software/simulation/index.asp?seg=geoquest&MM5 http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/mm5/MSC.NASTRAN http://www.mscsoftware.com/support/prod%5Fsupport/nastran/performance/v04_sngl.cfmSTAR-CD www.cd-adapco.com/products/STAR-CD/performance/320/index/htmlNAMD http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namdHMMER http://hmmer.janelia.org/

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Notes on performance estimatesrPerf for AIX

rPerf (Relative Performance) is an estimate of commercial processing performance relative to other IBM UNIX systems. It is derived from an IBM analytical model which uses characteristics from IBM internal workloads, TPC and SPEC benchmarks. The rPerf model is not intended to represent any specific public benchmark results and should not be reasonably used in that way. The model simulates some of the system operations such as CPU, cache and memory. However, the model does not simulate disk or network I/O operations.

rPerf estimates are calculated based on systems with the latest levels of AIX and other pertinent software at the time of system announcement. Actual performance will vary based on application and configuration specifics. The IBM eServer pSeries 640 is the baseline reference system and has a value of 1.0. Although rPerf may be used to approximate relative IBM UNIX commercial processing performance, actual system performance may vary and is dependent upon many factors including system hardware configuration and software design and configuration. Note that the rPerf methodology used for the POWER6 systems is identical to that used for the POWER5 systems. Variations in incremental system performance may be observed in commercial workloads due to changes in the underlying system architecture.

All performance estimates are provided "AS IS" and no warranties or guarantees are expressed or implied by IBM. Buyers should consult other sources of information, including system benchmarks, and application sizing guides to evaluate the performance of a system they are considering buying. For additional information about rPerf, contact your local IBM office or IBM authorized reseller.

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CPW for IBM i

Commercial Processing Workload (CPW) is a relative measure of performance of processors running the IBM i operating system. Performance in customer environments may vary. The value is based on maximum configurations. More performance information is available in the Performance Capabilities Reference at: www.ibm.com/systems/i/solutions/perfmgmt/resource.html

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