This IBM® Redpaper™ publication is written to assist you in locating the optimal server/workload fit within the IBM Power Systems™ L and IBM OpenPOWER LC product lines. IBM has announced several scale-out servers, and as a partner in the OpenPOWER organization, unique design characteristics that are engineered into the LC line have broadened the suite of available workloads beyond typical client OS hosting. This paper looks at the benefits of the Power Systems L servers and OpenPOWER LC servers, and how they are different, providing unique benefits for Enterprise workloads and use cases.

The IBM POWER8 processor

Linux on IBM Power Systems

The OpenPOWER Foundation

IBM scale-out servers

Workload differentiation

Systems for Big Data and Analytics

Systems for High Performance and Technical Computing

Systems designed for Compute-Intensive and Cloud workloads

Summary

Reference

Systems for Big Data and Analytics

Systems for High Performance and Technical Computing

Systems designed for Compute-Intensive and Cloud workloads

Virtualization and operating system support