IBM has introduced the NeXtScale System, a flexible computing
platform providing three times as many cores as current one-unit rack
servers, making it ideal for the fastest growing workloads such as
social media, analytics, technical computing and cloud delivery.
The rapid adoption of these workloads and delivery models is putting
increased demands on data centers, and clients are looking for new
technologies that meet those demands with the highest performance and
the lowest power consumption to drive high efficiency and lower costs.
NeXtScale is the latest addition to IBM's x86 portfolio, designed
specifically to run those applications with the power of a supercomputer
in any data center, via a simple, flexible and open architecture that
will support options for compute, storage, and graphics processing
acceleration.
IBM NeXtScale server system incorporates up to 84 x86-based systems
and 2016 processing cores in a standard EIA 19” rack, allowing easy
integration into any data center. It uses industry-standard components
including I/O cards and top-of-rack networking switches for flexibility
of choice and ease of adoption. IBM also provides a powerful software
stack to run on top of NeXtScale, including IBM general parallel file
system, GPFS storage server, xCAT, and platform computing, providing
powerful scheduling, management and optimization tools.
NeXtScale supports the industry's fastest x86 processors (Intel Xeon
processor E5-2600 v2) and DDR3 1866MHz memory, and can be integrated
into data centers or departmental IT closets, including those running at
100V-127V power inputs. NeXtScale is approved for operation in
higher-temperature data centers (up to 40C/104F degrees), reducing
cooling requirements and further lowering operational costs for users.
NeXtScale’s native expansion concept allows users to add common
functionality such as storage, graphics acceleration or co-processing,
either at the time of shipment or in the future. Available with
NeXtScale are new solution starter kits that make it easier for users to
configure many common departmental HPC and small cloud solutions, such
as Ansys, MPI-BLAST, and OpenStack.
The result is a single architecture based on open standards that
delivers high performance and high efficiency, and that is designed to
blend seamlessly with clients' data centers, current practices and x86
tools. NeXtScale's design can help clients better manage their
operations and capital expenditure budgets by allowing them to maximize
the compute power in a minimum amount of space in their data centers.
Because of its standard-rack form factor and broad use of
industry-standard components, IBM Business Partners can now deliver
IBM's high performance computing technology to a broad range of users.
IBM NeXtScale is designed for:
- Large data centers requiring efficiency, density, scale, and scalability;
- Public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructures;
- Data analytics applications like customer relationship management, operational optimization, risk/financial management, and new business models;
- Internet media applications such as online gaming and video streaming;
- High-resolution imaging for applications ranging from medicine to oil and gas exploration;
- "Departmental" uses where a small solution can increase the speed of outcome prediction, engineering analysis, and design and modeling.
"By delivering high flexibility, ultra performance and great
efficiency in an industry-standard format with a powerful software
stack, NeXtScale provides our clients with a versatile new data center
solution that is easy to qualify, acquire and deploy. The introduction
of NeXtScale and the other offerings and enhancements we're announcing
today illustrate our continuing commitment to providing high-value,
high-performance x86-based solutions to our clients," said Adalio
Sanchez, general manager at IBM System x.
Built for flexibility, NeXtScale can be purchased as a single node,
an empty or configured chassis, or in full racks as a complete
pre-tested IBM Intelligent Cluster solution, delivered fully configured
and ready to power on. With Intelligent Cluster, NeXtScale arrives at
the client location racked, cabled, and labeled with user-supplied
naming, with pre-programmed IMMs and addresses, and with burn-in testing
completed at virtually no additional cost. This can reduce time from
arrival to production readiness by 75%, while also substantially
reducing packaging waste.
By: Anton Shilov
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