| Blade servers |
Business use |
Processor (Max) |
Internal Memory (max) 1 |
Storage (max) 1, 2 |
| IBM BladeCenter PN41 |
Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) functional blade ideal
for enhancing security and improving control of network
traffic. |
Contains an Intel IXP 2805 network processor for use
in handling packets. |
Contains multiple types of memory such as TCAM, QDR
and RDRAM.* |
Contains no disk or flash drives |
| IBM BladeCenter HS12 |
Cost-efficient uniprocessor blade server ideal for
general business applications including file and print,
collaboration and Web serving. |
1-socket single, dual or quad-core Intel® Xeon® |
Up to 24GB |
Up to 293.6GB 1 with hot-swap SAS or non-hot-swap SATA
HDDs or up to 32GB with hot swap or non-hot swap solid
state drives. |
| IBM BladeCenter HS21 extended memory |
Ideal for Citrix, collaboration, Linux® clusters and
compute-centric applications. |
2-socket dual-core or quad-core Intel® Xeon® |
Up to 32GB |
Up to 587.2MB with 1 SAS HDD or 2 Solid State Drives
or 1 IBM Modular Flash Drive |
| IBM BladeCenter HS21 |
Ideal for general purpose applications, such as collaboration,
file serving, database and business computing |
2-socket dual-core or quad-core Intel® Xeon® |
Up to 16GB |
Up to 367GB 1 with 2 SAS HDDs |
| IBM BladeCenter LS22 |
Ideal for memory-intensive HPC applications including
modeling and simulation; database; virtualization; business
performance computing (BPC) applications including SAP
and business intelligence. |
2-socket quad-core AMD Opteron |
Up to 32GB |
Up to 293.6 GB with 2 SAS HDDs |
| IBM BladeCenter LS42 |
Ideal for HPC, including modeling and simulation; database;
virtualization; business performance computing applications
including SAP and business intelligence. |
4-socket quad-core AMD Opteron |
Up to 64GB |
Up to 293.6 GB with 2 SAS HDDs |
| IBM BladeCenter LS21 |
Green to the extreme - Ideal for collaboration, Web
serving and general-purpose applications |
2-socket dual-core AMD Opteron |
Up to 32GB |
Up to 293.6GB 1 with 1 SAS HDD |
| IBM BladeCenter LS41 |
Innovative scalability - Ideal for Virtualization,
database, SAP and ERP applications |
4-socket dual-core AMD Opteron |
Up to 64GB |
Up to 367GB 1 with 2 SAS HDDs |
| IBM BladeCenter JS12 Express |
Ideal as an alternative to a traditional AIX®, IBM
i or Linux for PowerT rack-mount and desk side servers. |
1-socket dual-core 64-bit IBM POWER6T with AltiVecT
SIMD accelerator |
Up to 64GB |
Up to 292GB with 2 SAS HDDs |
| IBM BladeCenter JS22 Express |
Ideal for workload consolidation with built-in PowerVMTM
virtualization, and broad based commercial AIX®, IBM i
or Linux® for PowerT applications |
2-socket dual-core 64-bit IBM POWER6T with AltiVecT
SIMD accelerator |
Up to 32GB |
Up to 146GB with 1 SAS HDD |
| IBM BladeCenter JS21 Express |
Ideal for basic AIX and Linux® for PowerT workloads
and high performance computing (HPC) applications |
2-socket single-core or dual-core 64-bit IBM PowerPC®
970MP with AltiVec SIMD accelerator |
Up to 16 GB |
Up to 293.6GB with 2 SAS HDDs |
| IBM BladeCenter QS22 |
Ideal for accelerating compute-intensive HPC workloads
such as financial analytics, seismic processing, image
processing, signal processing and graphics rendering. |
2-socket multi-core PowerXCellTM 8i |
Up to 32 GB |
Optional 8GB modular flash drive |
| IBM BladeCenter QS21 |
Ideal for HPC workloads requiring stream computing
image processing, signal processing, and numerical intensive
workloads. |
2-socket multi-core Cell/B.E |
2GB |
n/a |