IBM System p5 550Q

The IBM System p5 550Q platform is a new breed of 8-core scalable database and application server designed to meet the rigors of transaction-intensive and analytical applications. Powered by IBM's latest Quad-Core Module (QCM) POWER5+ processors, the p5-550Q delivers outstanding price/performance and high system throughput and is ideally suited for compute-intensive business intelligence (BI), scientific and engineering analytical applications, database applications, or server consolidation.