Highlights
- Outstanding value in a
symmetric multiprocessor system with up to
four processors
- Powerful, affordable
64-bit workgroup or e-business server
- Top performing RS/6000®
entry technical server with state-of-the-art
IBM POWER3-II copper microprocessors
- Up to 16GB of memory and
8MB L2 cache per processor provides
exceptional performance and capacity
benefits for e-business applications
- Improved floating-point
performance for numerically intensive
compute applications
- Designed for high system
availability with service processor and
Dynamic CPU Deallocation
- Powered by award-winning
IBM AIX®
More for your money
The RS/6000 44P Model 270 server combines high
performance with expandability and reliability
to help customers grow their businesses. It is a
cost-effective solution as a workgroup,
technical or e-business server or as a platform
for 64-bit SMP application development and
testing.
Twice the power
The Model 270 is designed for technical and
commercial users who require high performance
and SMP capability. It incorporates
state-of-the-art IBM copper chip technology with
up to16GB of memory and up to 8MB of L2 cache
per processor for truly impressive performance.
The 375/450 MHz POWER3-II processor offers a
significant performmance boost, with more than
three times improvement in floating-point
performance and almost four-and-a-half times the
transaction processing performance of the
RS/6000 43P Model 260.
The combination of multiple
POWER3-II processors and up to 16GB of memory
makes the Model 270 server an excellent choice
for demanding e-business, e-commerce, business
intelligence, enterprise resource planning,
customer relationship management and supply
chain management applications.
The 64-bit processors of the
Model 270 also help manage the evolution of
businesses into 64-bit computing, while
continuing to support existing 32-bit
applications. The system can run 32-bit and
64-bit applications concurrently. Most existing
32-bit applications can run unaltered,
leveraging and protecting current information
assets.
Online all the time
The Model 270 server brings advanced reliability
to the most critical operations with a built-in
service processor, which is designed to
continuously monitor the system's vital signs.
It can determine and take preventative or
corrective action to help ensure critical
applications stay up and running.
Enabled at a customer's
option, the service processor can, with IBM
Service Director™ offering installed,
automatically dial out to a service center if it
detects a component failure, often before any
problem is apparent to users or system
administrators.
The Model 270 has an IBM
unique feature, Dynamic CPU Deallocation, which
monitors the processors. In the event a
processor displays indications of an impending
failure, this feature working with AIX 4.3.3/5.1
is designed to take the faulty processor
offline. Work from the failing processor is
automatically reassigned to other processors and
replacement of the failing processor can be
scheduled for a convenient time.
Additional reliability and
availability features are included. The Model
270 features error checking and correcting (ECC)
memory that can detect and correct many errors.
And concurrent diagnostics enable
troubleshooting of potential system malfunctions
without shutting down the system.
For the most mission-critical
applications, the Model 270 offers the option of
high-availability clustering, using
industry-leading HACMP1
disaster recovery software from IBM.
Packed with value
The Model 270 server features a compact design
with excellent expansion capabilities. It offers
five disk/media bays, permitting up to 109.2GB
of internal disk storage, and products such as
the IBM 2104 Expandable Storage Plus (Ultra2
SCSI) and the IBM 7133 Serial Disk System (SSA)
provide terabytes of highly reliable,
hot-swappable external storage. Integrated
Ethernet, internal Ultra SCSI and external
Ultra2 SCSI controllers leave all five PCI slots
available for a company's use.
Performance and expandability
make the Model 270 an ideal choice for a
departmental or e-business server that can help
grow any business securely on the Internet. And
as one of the lowest-cost IBM SMP servers, the
Model 270 is an excellent choice as an entry
64-bit SMP technical server or development
system.
The AIX advantage
The Model 270 is the award-winning UNIX
operating system, AIX2.
It provides real value in reliability,
availability and security. AIX is tuned for
e-business performance, and widely recognized as
state-of- the-art in systems and network
management. With AIX, businesses have access to
over 13,000 diverse applications.
AIX 4.3 runs across the entire
RS/6000 product line and delivers Java™
technology, Web performance and scalability
enhancements. It is an excellent choice for
managing large complex installations. AIX offers
Web-based remote management tools that allow
control of the system from any Java™-enabled
browser and includes Tivoli Management Agent,
which monitors key resources such as adapter and
network availability, file system status and
processor workload.