Product guide

IBM NeXtScale nx360 M5 7
Standard specifications
The following table lists the standard specifications of the NeXtScale nx360 M5 compute node and
NeXtScale n1200 enclosure.
Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)
Components Specification
Form factor Standard server: Half-wide, 1U compute node.
With optional NeXtScale PCIe Native Expansion Tray: Half-wide 2U compute node.
Supported
chassis
IBM NeXtScale n1200 enclosure, 6U high; up to 12 compute nodes per chassis.
Processor Two Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 v3 series processors; QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) links
speed up to 8.0 GTps. Hyper-Threading Technology and Turbo Boost Technology. Intel C612
chipset.
6-core processors 2.4 GHz and 15 MB L3 cache
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8-core processors up to 3.2 GHz and 20 MB L3 cache
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10-core processors up to 2.6 GHz and 25 MB L3 cache
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12-core processors up to 2.6 GHz and 30 MB L3 cache
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14-core processors up to 2.6 GHz and 35 MB L3 cache
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16-core processors 2.3 GHz and 40 MB L3 cache
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18-core processors 2.3 GHz and 45 MB L3 cache
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Memory Up to 16 DIMM sockets (8 DIMMs per processor) supporting DDR4 DIMMs up to 2133 MHz
memory speeds. RDIMMs and LRDIMMs are supported. Four memory channels per processor
(two DIMMs per channel).
Memory
maximums
Up to 512 GB with 16x 32 GB LRDIMMs and two processors.
Memory
protection
Chipkill (x4 memory options only), ECC.
Disk drive bays Internal to the nx360 M5 (not front accessible): One 3.5-inch simple-swap SATA or two 2.5-inch
simple swap SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs, or four 1.8-inch simple-swap SSDs. Front-accessible
bays : Two 2.5-inch hot-swap drive bays (optional, replaces the full-height PCIe slot, only
supported if internal drive bays are also 2.5-inch bays). NeXtScale Storage Native Expansion
Tray currently is not supported.
Maximum
internal storage
Using 3.5-inch drives: 6.0 TB using 1x 6TB 3.5-inch drive (internal)
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Using 2.5-inch drives: 5.6 TB using 2x 1.2 TB HDDs (internal) + 2x 1.6 TB HS SSDs (front)
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Using 1.8-inch drives: 1.6 TB using 4x 400 GB SSDs (internal)
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RAID support Four 6 Gb SATA ports through onboard Intel C612 chipset. No RAID standard. Optional 12 Gb
SAS/SATA RAID adapter installed in dedicated internal PCIe slot. Supports ServeRAID M5210
or M1215, both standard with RAID 0 and 1. Optional M5210 upgrades: RAID 5, 50 (zero-cache,
or 1 GB non-backed cache, or 1 GB or 2 GB or 4 GB flash-backed cache), RAID 6, 60, FoD
performance upgrades; Optional upgrade to M1215 for RAID 5 support (zero-cache). No
support for ServeRAID C100 or C105 software RAID.
Optical drive
bays
No internal bays. Use an external USB drive, such as the IBM and Lenovo part number
73P4515 or 73P4516.
Tape drive bays No internal bays. Use an external USB drive.