• Great for application serving in distributed environments
• Exceptional price/performance through IBM PowerPC technology
• Flexibility to support Linux® and UNIX® applications
• Easy to buy, install and manage

The new System p5 185 Express server is our lowest priced system based on the IBM Power Architecture™ with features designed for excellent and secure performance whether running AIX 5L™ or Linux applications. Buy it either as a deskside or 5U (five EIA units) 19-inch rack-mount server and get up to 2-way scalability and IBM leadership availability. The p5-185 Express can support critical applications such as application serving or distributed workloads—all while helping improve availability and responsiveness. As such, it is an excellent replacement for IBM RS/6000® 150 and 170 servers in distributed environments.

With leading-edge IBM PowerPC 970 processor technology and the AltiVec™ performance enhancement, the very affordable 64-bit symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) System p5 185 Express server offers significant price/performance benefits. And running Linux or UNIX operating system environments concurrently make the p5-185 Express an excellent complement to the System p5 Express family.

Common Features

• Deskside or 19-inch rack-mount packaging
• 1- or 2-core SMP design
• 64-bit PowerPC technology with AltiVec™ extensions
• Mainframe-inspired RAS features
• HACMP™ for AIX 5L software support for near continuous operation
• Supported by AIX 5L (V5.2 and V5.3) and Linux distributions from Red Hat (RHEL AS 4.3) and SUSE Linux (SLES 9 SP3) operating systems

Hardware Summary

• Deskside or 5U 19-inch rack-mount packaging
• One or two 64-bit 2.5 GHz PowerPC 970 processors
• 1MB L2 cache per processor
• 512MB to 8GB of 333 MHz DDR SDRAM
• Four PCI-X adapter slots (2 – 66 MHz (64-bit); 2 – 133 MHz (64-bit)); One PCI slot (33 MHz (32-bit))
• Three SCSI disk bays for up to 0.9TB of internal storage
• Dual channel Ultra320 SCSI controller (internal and external)
• Dual ported Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps controller
• Four USB (two front, two rear), two serial ports
• Two half-high media bays (one for optical device; one for tape or additional disk drive)
• Optional 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel, 4x InfiniBand adapters
• Optional 3D graphics choices (GXT4500P / GXT6500P) and 2D graphics (GXT135P)