Technical Comparison - IBM BladeCenter PS700 Technical Overview And Introduction

2.5 Technical comparison

Table 2-7 shows a comparison of the technical aspects of the PS700, PS701, and PS702
blade compared to a Power 750 Express.
Table 2-7 Comparison of technical characteristics between PS blades and the Power 750 Express
Systems characteristic
Processor
Pluggable processor cards
Min./Max. processor cores
L3 cache
Max memory slots and type
Memory chipkill
Memory spare
Memory hotplug
EnergyScale device
PCIe x8 slots
PCI-X 2.0 slots
PCIe and PCI-X hot plug
Integrated Virtual Ethernet Ports /
Speed
PowerVM support
Capacity on Demand
Redundant hotplug power
DASD bays
GX slot
(GX+ slot does not support RIO2)
PS700 PS701
4-cores at 3.0 8-cores at 3.0
GHz GHz
Not Applicable Not Applicable
4 8
On-chip On-chip
eDRAM eDRAM
8 DDR3 16 DDR3
Yes Yes
No No
No No
Yes Yes
2 2
0 0
No No
Integrated Integrated
2 /1 Gb 2 / 1 Gb
Yes Yes
No No
Yes through Yes through
chassis chassis
2 1
Not applicable Not applicable
PS702 Power 750 Express
16-cores at 3.0 6-cores at 3.3 GHz
GHz 8-cores at 3.0 GHz, 3.3 GHz,
3.55 GHz
Not Applicable 1–4
16 6/24 (6-core) or 8/32 (8-core)
On-chip On-chip eDRAM
eDRAM
32 DDR3 8 slots per processor card
(32 slots max.), DDR3
Yes Yes
No Yes
No No
Yes Yes
4 3
0 2
No Yes
Integrated daughter card
4 / 1 Gb quad port / 1 Gb
or
dual port / 10 Gb
Yes Yes
No No
Yes through Yes
chassis
2 8 (hot-plug, front access,
SFF)
Not applicable 1 x GX+ slot and 1 x GX++
slot (not hot pluggable)
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