• Up to 4-core scalability with unique Quad-Core Module technology
• Choose from thousands of AIX 5L™ and Linux® operating system applications
• Easy to buy, install and manage with a 3-year warranty

The System p5™ 510 and 510Q Express servers provide availability, flexibility and security features designed for reliable application serving in compact 2U package. Fueled by IBM’s most advanced POWER5™ 64-bit processor with simultaneous multithreading1, these 19-inch rack-mount servers deliver up to 4-core scalability and outstanding price/performance.

The System p5 510Q Express platform is designed to meet the rigors of transaction-intensive and analytical applications. Using IBM’s latest Quad-Core Module (QCM) technology with four 1.5 GHz POWER5+ processors, the p5-510Q Express delivers outstanding price/performance and high system throughput and is ideally suited for application consolidation, compute-intensive business intelligence (BI) as well as scientific and engineering analytical applications.

Common Features

• 19-inch rack-mount packaging
• 2U form factor for space constrained environments
• 4-core SMP design
• 64-bit POWER5+ technology
• Mainframe-inspired RAS features
• Dynamic LPAR support
• Advanced POWER™ Virtualization (options)
  • Micro-Partitioning™ (up to 40 micro-partitions)
  • Shared processor pool
  • Virtual I/O Server with Integrated Virtualization Manager
  • Partition Load Manager (AIX 5L only)
• 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) and SUSE LINUX (SLES 9) operating systems

Hardware Summary

• 2U 19-inch rack-mount packaging
• Four 64-bit 1.5 GHz POWER5+ processors
• 3.8MB L2 and 72MB L3 cache
• 1GB to 32GB of 528 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
• Three PCI-X adapter slots (1 – 133 MHz; 2 – 266 MHz (DDR))
• Four hot-swappable SCSI disk bays for up to 1.2TB of internal storage
• Dual channel Ultra320 SCSI controller (internal and external ports; optional RAID daughter card)
• Dual ported Ethernet 10/100/1000 Mbps controller
• Optional 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 4x InfiniBand adapters
• Two USB, two HMC, two system ports
• One slimline media bay for optical device