NEW - IBM BladeCenter LS22 and LS42 blade servers

The IBM BladeCenter LS22 and LS42 blade servers, coupled with the BladeCenter chassis, advance application serving with performance, density, and scalability.

Product positioning

The BladeCenter server blade offerings are positioned as the highest-density servers of the IBM line. These server blades represent a new approach to the deployment of application servers where two-way, SMP-capable processing, high-availability design, systems management, and easy setup features are combined in an extremely dense package.

The BladeCenter can require less space and power resources because of their high-density design, reduced power requirements, and single-environment systems management. This is an extremely important consideration for:

Large enterprises
Application service providers
Scientific and technical computing businesses
They are an excellent fit for applications such as:

HPC life sciences
Linux clusters

At your command are:

* Powerful, two-way SMP-capable Opteron processors
* High-speed memory with error checking and correction (ECC)
* Dual Gigabit Ethernet connections (LS22)
* Four Gigabit Ethernet connections (LS42)
* SAS RAID-1 (mirroring) supported in 32-bit legacy mode only
* Advanced high availability and systems management features

These features offer an economical approach to the deployment of large numbers of powerful servers that require less space and fewer power resources than traditional rack servers.

These next-generation processors use one 1 GHz interprocessor HyperTransport bus.

Planned availability date September 19, 2008

IBM BladeCenter LS22 - Quad Core 79013QU
IBM BladeCenter LS22 - Quad Core 7901CQU
IBM BladeCenter LS42 - Quad Core 79023QU
IBM BladeCenter LS42 - Quad Core 7902CQU

IBM BladeCenter LS22

Quad Core AMD Opteron Processor Model 2347 HE 44X1542
1.9 GHz 2MB L2 2MB L3 Cache
Quad Core AMD Opteron Processor Model 2356 44R4961
2.3 GHz 2MB L2 2MB L3 Cache

IBM BladeCenter LS42

Quad Core AMD Opteron Processor Model 8347 HE 44X1552
1.9 GHz 2MB L2 2MB L3 Cache
Quad Core AMD Opteron Processor Model 8356 44R4971
2.3 GHz 2MB L2 2MB L3 Cache

IBM BladeCenter LS22 & LS42
8 GB (2x4 GB) PC2-5300 CL5 ECC DDR2 667 VLP RDIMM 46C7524
8 GB (2x4 GB) PC2-6400 CL6 ECC DDR2 800 VLP RDIMM 46C7525
2 GB (2x1 GB) PC2-5300 CL5 ECC DDR2 667 VLP RDIMM 46C0522