Key Features - IBM System x3650 M4 HD Product Manual

Key features

The x3650 M4 HD is an outstanding 2U two-socket business-critical server, offering improved
performance and pay-as-you grow flexibility along with new features that improve server management
capability. This powerful system is designed for your most important business applications and cloud
deployments.
Combining balanced performance and flexibility, the x3650 M4 HD is a great choice for small and medium
businesses up to the large enterprise. It can provide outstanding uptime to keep business-critical
applications and cloud deployments running safely. Ease of use and comprehensive systems
management tools make it easy to deploy. Outstanding RAS and high-efficiency design improve your
business environment and help save operational costs.
Scalability and performance
The x3650 M4 HD offers numerous features to boost performance, improve scalability, and reduce costs:
Featuring the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v2 product family, which improves productivity by offering
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superior system performance with up to 12 core per processors, core speeds up to 3.5 GHz, L3 cache
up to 30 MB, and QPI interconnect links of up to 8 GTps.
Two processors, up to 24 cores, and 48 threads maximize the concurrent execution of multi-threaded
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applications.
Intelligent and adaptive system performance with Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 allows CPU cores
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to run at maximum speeds during peak workloads by temporarily going beyond processor thermal
design power (TDP).
Intel Hyper-Threading Technology boosts performance for multi-threaded applications by enabling
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simultaneous multi-threading within each processor core, up to two threads per core.
Intel Virtualization Technology integrates hardware-level virtualization hooks that allow operating
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system vendors to better use the hardware for virtualization workloads.
Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) improve floating-point performance for compute-intensive
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technical and scientific applications.
Supports up to 24 Load Reduced DIMMs (LRDIMMs) of 1866 MHz DDR3 ECC memory, which
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provide speed, high availability, and a memory capacity of up to 768 GB (running at 1066 MHz).
The use of solid-state drives (SSDs) instead of, or along with, traditional hard disk drives (HDDs) can
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improve I/O performance. An SSD can support up to 100 times more I/O operations per second
(IOPS) than a typical HDD.
Up to 26x 2.5-inch bays or a combination of up to 16x 2.5-inch bays and 16x 1.8-inch SSD bays
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provide a flexible and scalable platform to meet your increasing demands.
The server has four integrated Gigabit Ethernet ports and two optional 10 Gb Ethernet (or InfiniBand)
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ports with mezzanine cards that do not use PICe slots.
The server offers PCI Express 3.0 I/O expansion capabilities that improve the theoretical maximum
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bandwidth by 60% (8 GTps per link) compared to the previous generation of PCI Express 2.0.
With Intel Integrated I/O Technology, the PCI Express 3.0 controller is integrated into the Intel Xeon
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processor E5 family. This integration helps to reduce I/O latency dramatically and increase overall
system performance.
Support for up to two NVIDIA Quadro graphics processing units (GPUs) to maximize computing
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power.
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