- Offers enterprise class capabilities and energy efficiency to the Linux marketplace that UNIX clients have depended on to run their businesses
- Offers leadership reliability, availability and scalability for unparalleled dependability and improved responsiveness of systems and people
- Linux runs on IBM BladeCenter and Flex System
- Provides floating-point acceleration for HPC performance
- Allows POWER processor-based systems to be mixed and matched with x86 processor-based systems
Like most commodity Linux servers, PowerLinux servers run industry standard Linux from Red Hat and SUSE (among others). Unlike x86, PowerLinux technology offers a broad range of deployment options. Low-cost, two-socket PowerLinux servers and Flex System nodes, based on high-performance POWER7 processors and security-rich PowerVM virtualization technology, can be ideal for applications that favor a scale-out model - a distributed computing workload model with built-in redundancy and failover capabilities that is popular with Linux technology.