IBM said today that Microsoft is among its first customers for the IBM iDataPlex server launched last month. IDataPlex servers are specifically designed for the high-performance computing (HPC) needs of cloud environments. The goal is to help data centers increase computational density without requiring more power or more space. IBM says that iDataPlex uses 40% less power and yet offers five times the computing power than other servers of similar physical size.
Microsoft is using IBM iDataPlex servers within its Windows Server Group for internal benchmarking of Microsoft’s cluster computing operating system, Windows HPC Server 2008. Microsoft says one of the goals for using IBM’s new server is to verify thatHPC Server 2008’s advanced power management capabilities work well with iDataPlex and a wide variety of high-performance computing applications.
IBM has also added a new member to the iDataPlex line, the DX360, which scales even bigger than previous versions. It can “pack 145 teraflops (145 trillion operations per second) of compute power in a 315-square-foot area,” it says. The iDataPlex DX360 HPC server relies on 3GHz, Intel quad-core Xeon processors and software from a start-up called ScaleMP that boosts bandwidth and memory performance.
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