Highlights ●● ● ●Complete: combining compute, interconnect, storage and system software ●● ● ●Modular and Extensible: match the right combination of components and configurations to meet your workload ●● ● ●Integrated: racked and tested in IBM manufacturing to reduce time to compute

1. IBM Systems
Data Sheet
IBM Power Systems
HPC Cluster
Highlights
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Complete: combining compute, intercon-
nect, storage and system software
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Modular and Extensible: match the
right combination of components and
configurations to meet your workload
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Integrated: racked and tested in
IBM manufacturing to reduce time to
compute
Organizations today are demanding faster insights leveraging more data
in new ways. Computing models which were previously the domain of
the largest supercomputing centers have become critical tools for research
institutions as well as businesses world-wide. To meet these requirements,
organizations must be able to quickly deploy complete, high performance
computing solutions, at an affordable price.
IBM® Power Systems™ high performance computing (HPC) cluster
offering is built on the foundation of IBM’s long-term partnerships with
the top supercomputing centers around the world. It is available at a scale
to meet your HPC and high-performance data analytics needs, from five
to sixty-four nodes. These configurable systems offer innovative compute,
storage, networking, and management hardware from IBM and key
IBM technology partners, along with system software technologies to
meet performance specifications that are influenced by top HPC super-
computing centers’ requirements. Orders are integrated at the factory
for system completeness and validation before shipment to your site for
rapid deployment.

2. 2
Data Sheet
IBM Systems
Faster time to insight: an integrated
cluster solution for your workflows
Architecting superior HPC clusters requires a holistic approach
that responds to performance at every level of the deployment.
The IBM Power Systems HPC Cluster computing solution,
built with IBM Power Systems, IBM Spectrum™ Computing,
IBM Spectrum Storage™, and IBM Software technologies,
provides an integrated platform to optimize your HPC work-
flows, resulting in faster time to insights and value.
IBM Power Systems HPC Cluster is an integrated offering
containing compute, interconnect, storage, management,
cabling, and racking hardware that incorporates the following:
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From five to sixty-four compute nodes, built upon the
foundation of IBM POWER8® processors, with optional
Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) or Field Programmable
Gateway Array (FPGA) Acceleration from OpenPOWER
partners
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Elastic Storage Server (ESS) parallel storage solutions
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Software for cluster management and workload scheduling,
including optional IBM Spectrum Cluster Foundation V4.2.2
and IBM Spectrum LSF
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Optional optimized scientific and high performance comput-
ing software libraries
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High performance interconnect/fabric from Mellanox
Technologies
This preloaded cluster offering bundles HPC hardware with
IBM’s HPC software suite, including the XL C/C++ and
XL Fortran Compilers, IBM Parallel Environment, and
IBM’s Engineering and Scientific Subroutine Library (ESSL)
and Parallel ESSL. At a node level, this software is highly tuned
to get innovative performance from the IBM POWER8
architecture, which is delivered preinstalled with configurable
management, login, and compute nodes. IBM’s custom highly
scalable Message Passing Interface (MPI) facilitates scaling
across nodes, racks, and the entire cluster. Optional software
includes IBM Spectrum Cluster Foundation V4.2.2 and
IBM Spectrum LSF, which optimizes workload scheduling
and provisioning to provide up to 150 times greater throughput
for faster time to result.1
When configured with the optional Elastic Storage Server
(ESS) storage solutions, Spectrum Scale clients are preinstalled
to the compute, login, and management nodes.
These cluster elements are integrated and tested in IBM’s man-
ufacturing facilities for completeness, and then shipped to client
locations for final racking. This end to end integration, testing,
and manufacturing process reduces risk of an incomplete solu-
tion and speeds up time to deployment
Why IBM?
IBM understands that applications and business processes have
differing demands and that one size does not fit all. To ensure
that technology aligns to business rather than the other way
around, IBM offers a full portfolio of Power Systems and
Software.
Businesses that rely on IBM Power Systems servers don’t just
value leading technology and applications. They value the
exceptional client experience that IBM provides throughout
the business solution lifecycle that helps them drive rapid and
lasting business value

3. 3
Data Sheet
IBM Systems
Power Systems HPC Cluster compute node specifications
System configurations
Microprocessors Two 8-core 3.32 GHz POWER8 processor cards or
two 10-core 2.92 GHz POWER8 processor cards
Level 2 (L2) cache 512 KB L2 cache per core
Level 3 (L3) cache 8 MB L3 cache per core
RAM (memory) 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB and 32 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 module, 32 GB to 1 TB
Processor-to-memory bandwidth 115 GB/sec per socket, 230 GB/sec per system (Max sustained memory bandwidth to L4 cache from SCM)
170 GB/sec per socket, 340 GB/sec per system (Max peak memory bandwidth to DIMMs from L4 cache)
Internal SCSI disk bays 2 small form factor (SFF) bays for hard disk drive (HDD) or solidstate disk (SSD)
Media bays N/A
Adapter slots Five PCIe Gen3 slots: Three x16 plus Two x8 PCIe Gen3
Up to Two NVIDIA GPUs options available
Standard features
POWER Hypervisor™ N/A
Advanced POWER Virtualization1
(option)
N/A
RAS features Processor instruction retry
Selective dynamic firmware updates
Chip kill memory
ECC L2 cache, L3 cache
Service processor with fault monitoring
Hot-swappable disk bays
Hot-plug and redundant power supplies and cooling fans (no power redundancy with GPU(s) installed)
Operating systems Linux on Power
Power requirements 200 V to 240 V
System dimensions 441.5 W x 86 H x 822 D mm
Warranty 3 year limited warranty; CRU (customer replaceable unit) for all other units (varies by country), next business
day 9am to 5pm (excluding holidays), warranty service upgrades and maintenance are available.
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4. For more information
To learn more about the Power Systems HPC Cluster, please
contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner,
or visit the following website:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/hpc.html
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For more information, visit: ibm.com/financing
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