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IBM pSeries 550Q Hardware Specifications



Configuration options

Microprocessor: p5-550 Express: Two or four 64-bit 1.65 or 1.9 GHz POWER5+ processors
p5-550Q Express: Four or eight 64-bit 1.5 GHz POWER5+ processors
Level 2 (L2) cache: 1.9MB per processor pair
Level 3 (L3) cache: 36MB per processor pair
RAM (memory): 1GB to 64GB of 528 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Internal disk storage: Up to 2.4TB (31.2TB with optional I/O drawers)
Processor-to-memory bandwidth (peak): 42.2GBps
L2 to L3 cache bandwidth (peak): p5-550 Express: 60.8 GBps
p5-550Q Express: 96.0 GBps
RIO-2 I/O subsystem bandwidth (peak): p5-550 Express; 10.1 GBps
p5-550Q Express: 8.0 GBps
Internal SCSI disk bays: Four standard, plus four optional (10K or 15K rpm disks)
Media bays: Two slimline and one half-high
Adapter slots: Five PCI-X (4—133 MHz; 1—266 MHz (DDR))

Standard features

I/O ports: Dual channel Ultra320 SCSI controller (internal; RAID optional)
Dual ported Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps controller
Two USB, two HMC, two system ports

Expansion features

I/0 expansion: Up to eight 7311-D20 I/O drawers, each providing seven 64-bit PCI-X slots and up to 12 disk bays (10K or 15K rpm disks)
Connectivity support: 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel; 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 4x InfiniBand

Advanced POWER Virtualization (options):

Micro-Partitioning
Shared processor pool
VIOS
IVM
Partition Load Manager (AIX 5L only)

Operating systems:

AIX 5L Edition: AIX 5L V5.2 or later OpenPower Edition: SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 for POWER (SLES 9) or later; Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 for POWER (RHEL AS 4) or later

Power requirements:

100v to 127v or 200v to 240v AC

System dimensions:

Deskside: 21.1"H x 7.9"W x 30.7"D (533mm x 201mm x 779mm); weight: 91.0 lb (41.4 kg) Rack drawer: 7.0"H (4U) x 17.2"W x 27.0"D (178mm x 437mm x 731mm); weight: 91.0 lb (41.4 kg) 7311-D20 I/O drawer: 7.0"H (4U) x 19.0"W x 24.0"D (178mm x 482mm x 610mm); weight: 101.0 lb (45.9 kg)