IBM introduces new, flexible platform
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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 growing workloads such as social media, analytics, technical computing and cloud delivery.
The adoption of these workloads and delivery models is putting increased demands on data centres, and clients are looking for new technologies that meet those demands with performance and low power consumption to increase 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 centre via a simple, flexible and open architecture that will support options for computing, storage and graphics processing acceleration.
This new system incorporates up to 84 x86-based systems and 2,016 processing cores in a standard EIA 19-inch rack, allowing easy integration into any data centre.
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.
These are powerful scheduling, management and optimisation tools.
The result is a single architecture based on open standards that delivers high performance and high efficiency.
It is also designed to blend seamlessly with clients’ data centres, current practices and x86 tools.
NeXtScale’s design can help clients manage their operations and capital expenditure budgets by allowing them to maximise computing power in a minimum amount of space in their data centres.
NeXtScale is designed for large data centres and public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructures.
