IBM Power 595 UNIX IBM has unveiled two new high-end power system models named as Power 595 UNIX for enterprise servers and the water-cooled Power 575 supercomputer.

The newly launched energy efficient systems comes packed with IBM virtualization technology and hence, help users to lessen bottom line operating costs related to energy, floor space and systems management.

The company also claims that its new models can also meliorate the performance of the system.

The company’s new Power6 ‘Hydro-Cluster’ supercomputer, the Power 575 is specially designed to help users to deal with world’s most challenging problems in the fields of aerospace, energy and weather modeling, offering up green IT, service management and cloud computing. Besides, it offers users nearly five times the performance and over threefold the energy efficiency of its predecessor, IBM POWER5+ processor-based p575 supercomputer

The main characteristics of the new Power 575 comprise a 24" frame packaging, 16-, 24-, 32-, 40-, 48-, 56- or 64-core MCM (Multichip Module) SMP design, 64-bit POWER5 technology, Mainframe-inspired RAS features including selective dynamic firmware updates and redundant service processor, Advanced POWER Virtualization2 standard, Up to 12 I/O drawers (11 are optional). rredundant power subsystem with optional redundant battery backup, IBM HACMP™ support for near continuous operation, Operating system support via AIX 5L (V5.2 or later) and Linux distributions from Red Hat (RHEL AS 4 or later) and SUSE Linux (SLES 9 or later) and many others.

Rajesh Saha, country manager - Enterprise Systems, Systems-Technology Group - IBM India/SA said, “The world’s most powerful enterprise UNIX server with superior virtualisation for workload balancing across UNIX, Linux and i applications, and the water-cooled supercomputer - represent major breakthroughs in innovation and energy efficiency for IBM clients, and makes the new enterprise data centre a reality. Sun and HP UNIX customers just might discover that the new ’power rewards programme’ is the impetus to make the switch to the power roadmap.”

The company’s UNIX based Server is the fastest UNIX server in the world.

IBM also stated that the Power 595 is designed to strengthen its control over the UNIX market. Additionally, it will attract subsisting customers of the company along with Sun Solaris and HP UNIX users. The Power 595 will hit the market by May 2008.
 
Powered by the PowerVM Enterprise Edition technology, the Power 595 also features an ultra-high frequency IBM POWER6™ processors in up to 64-core, multiprocessing (SMP) configurations, the Power 595 server, PowerVM™ virtualization, EnergyScale™ technology and Capacity on Demand (CoD) options and many more.