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IBM Announces QDR InfiniBand for Cluster 1350 and iDataPlex Solutions
Friday, 22 May 2009 07:35

qlogic-logo-214x42IBM is excited to announce the addition of the new QLogic 12000 Series of Quad Data Rate (QDR) InfiniBand switches to the Cluster 1350 BOM and iDataPlex offerings.  The QLogic 12000 Series represents a new class of InfiniBand switching for High Performance Computing. Based on the QLogic TrueScale™ QDR ASIC platform, these advanced 40Gb/s QDR switches are the next evolution in InfiniBand switches. The QLogic 12000 Fabric Directors support High Performance Computing (HPC), database clustering and grid utility computing applications; they maximize cluster and grid computing interconnect performance while simplifying and reducing data center costs. IBM is offering both Edge and Director class switches.  The 12200 and 12300 Edge switches are 1U self contained solutions that can also allow you to port out to a Director class switch. The 12800s are a completely modular family of Director class switches allowing complete flexibility of design. Units can be populated with Ultra High Density (UHD) leafs for maximum connectivity or Ultra High Performance (UHP) leafs for maximum performance. 

 

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Server move
Wednesday, 20 May 2009 13:41

OnDemand CapacityToday we've moved our server from our former sponsor PINS to the datacenter of our new sponsor OnDemand Capacity.
OnDemand Capacity now hosts all the sites of the Blue Live Group and provides us all the needs we require.

OnDemand Capacity is an superflexible hostingcentre with unlimited possibilities for hosting and capacity delivery. Even better is that OnDemand Capacity can expand their hardware within minutes straight from OnDemand Rentals, no deliverytimes or whatsoever.

  • Very short term hosting (starting from one week)
  • Long term hosting up to five years
  • Virtual Machine rental for low prices
  • Total solution hosting, rental of hardware combined with hosting
  • Pay-as-you-grow services
  • Flexible solution for your demands
  • IBM Cross brand hosting solutions
  • And much more, ondemand everything is possible...

Read more to see the pictures!

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IBM BladeCenter HS22 Technical Introduction
Monday, 18 May 2009 21:47

HS22The IBM® BladeCenter® HS22 is a two-socket blade server running the latest Intel® Xeon processors. It is ideal for infrastructure, virtualization and enterprise business applications and is compatible with all IBM BladeCenter chassis.

This paper is a comprehensive technical introduction to the IBM BladeCenter HS22.

Source:  IBM RedBooks HS22 Technical Introduction

 
Look-and-feel
Sunday, 17 May 2009 10:47

Blue Live GroupWe have changed the way x4live looks to be in line with the Blue Live Group look-an-feel used on various sites like www.i5live.com
Nothing is perfect yet and we wil continue to change some of the content and components in the next couple of weeks.

 

 
REDBOOK: Implementing IBM Systems Director 6.1
Wednesday, 13 May 2009 09:43

Redbooks-klein.gifIBM Systems Director is a platform management foundation that streamlines the way that physical and virtual systems are managed across a multi-system environment. Leveraging industry standards, IBM Systems Director supports multiple operating systems and virtualization technologies across IBM® and non-IBM platforms.

IBM Systems Director provides multi-system support for IBM Power Systems™, Systems x, BladeCenter®, System z®, and Storage Systems, enabling integration of IBM systems with the total infrastructure. IBM Systems Director also manages non-IBM x86-based systems through a dedicated agent.

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Processor Value Unit (PVU) licensing
Thursday, 23 April 2009 10:08

Effective April 1, 2009, each processor core of the new Intel® Xeon® multi-core processor technology, commonly known as Nehalem, requires 70 Processor Value Units (PVUs) for software licensing. Given the significant performance improvement of the new Xeon multi-core processor technology, this licensing requirement is intended to provide software price performance improvements over the previous generation technologies likely to be replaced.

PVU licenses required for previous generation Intel Xeon multi-core processor technologies remain unchanged. PVU entitlements per core are based on processor technology, defined by processor vendor, brand, type, and model number. Processor model numbers are used to verify new versus previous generation Intel Xeon multi-core processor technologies.IBM® continues the practice of licensing to the processor core. This gives you the licensing granularity that you require, while also delivering the flexibility of configuring servers to support your business objectives most effectively. For the current PVU Table, that includes a list of processor model numbers for new and previous generation Intel Xeon multi-core processor technologies, visit http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/passportadvantage/pvu_licensing_for_customers.html

 
10G Pass-Through Card for IBM BladeCenter
Tuesday, 07 April 2009 11:23

Menlo Park, CA, April 7, 2009 – Arista Networks today announced a 10 Gigabit Ethernet Pass-Through Card for the IBM BladeCenter H, addressing bandwidth intensive applications while alleviating both capital and operational costs in the data center.

As opposed to traditional blade switches, the Arista 10G Pass-Through Card enables a much simplified and ultra-low latency, truly non-blocking network design. Each server’s 10G NIC is "passed-through" to a rack-top switch without being switched or blocked and without requiring any network management at the IBM Bladecenter chassis level.

The non-blocking performance improves server utilization and consequently data center power efficiency while at the same time improving network stability and reducing operational costs.

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IBM System x ToolsCenter
Wednesday, 01 April 2009 10:03

IBM System x ToolsCenterThe IBM System x® ToolsCenter is collection server management tools to help manage your IBM System x and BladeServer environment. ToolsCenter makes managing your server environment less complicated, more productive and cost-effective.

Tools like ServerGuide, ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit, UpdateXpress System Pack Installer, Advanced Settings Utility and IBM Dynamic Systems Analysis are all part of this ToolsCenter.

Source:  IBM ToolsCenter Web Portal, IBM ToolsCenter InfoCenter

 


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