IBM released the most powerful water-cooled UNIX server and hydro cluster

IBM is going to shame competitors in full. The new monster server, Power 595, with 5-gigahertz Power6 processors is not just more powerful than its competitors in the same price category, but it doubles them. The company leads benchmarks SPECint_rate2006 similar in configuration 64-core servers, IBM and HP. The Power 595 model with 256 GB of RAM and Power6 processors at 4.2 GHz showed a result of 1650, while the HP Integrity Superdome model with 1.6 GHz processors shows only 824, that is, exactly two times less. Considering the frequency at which the new Power6 processors operate, the difference in performance is not surprising.

Power 595 comes in configurations from 8 to 64 Power6 processors with a frequency of 4.2 to 5 GHz, the total amount of RAM can reach 4 TB. The whole structure is mounted in a two-meter cabinet weighing 1550 kg.

In addition to Power 595, the company introduced a new version of the server module for Power 575 supercomputers, which was called “Hydro-cluster” (Hydro-Cluster). The name is quite logical, because in this version of the server water cooling is implemented: in recent years it has come into fashion again .