Unlock the potential of Linux and AI with IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5
Innovation that drives business growth
IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5 combines the highest levels of enterprise security, performance and scalability with Linux® and open-source workloads including hybrid cloud and AI applications. Powered by the IBM Telum® II processor, with its multiple on-chip AI accelerators, LinuxONE can then be extended by adding IBM Spyre Accelerator cards to support generative AI and multiple AI model architectures.
With confidential containers, high availability, and AI inferencing on co-located data, LinuxONE 5 delivers a secure and resilient foundation for modern enterprise workloads.
Features
Provides a fully integrated software and hardware solution that serves as the foundation for workloads running in hybrid multi-cloud environments.
Offers a highly reliable, scalable and secure server operating system, designed to power mission-critical workloads.
Offers open-source expertise, cost efficiency, and enterprise-grade scalability, reliability, and security to data centers, public and private clouds.
Hybrid cloud and AI software
Unified solution for strategic automation combining the security, features and flexibility needed to scale automation across domains.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is an add-on for IBM LinuxONE that enables virtual machines and containers to run together on the same high-performance hardware, offering unified management, enhanced reliability, and resource efficiency.
Offers a range of popular open-source AI frameworks, optimized for the on-chip integrated AI accelerator in Telum.
Train models with high-quality privacy-compliant data on a platform of your choice, and deploy those models back to IBM LinuxONE for real-time inferencing
Enables businesses to integrate and modernize their applications with a strong foundation that is cyber resilient, scalable and cost efficient.
Centrally manage encryption keys, enhance security, and simplify compliance across hybrid cloud environments.
Unified solution for strategic automation combining the security, features and flexibility needed to scale automation across domains.
Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization is an add-on for IBM LinuxONE that enables virtual machines and containers to run together on the same high-performance hardware, offering unified management, enhanced reliability, and resource efficiency.
Offers a range of popular open-source AI frameworks, optimized for the on-chip integrated AI accelerator in Telum.
Train models with high-quality privacy-compliant data on a platform of your choice, and deploy those models back to IBM LinuxONE for real-time inferencing
Enables businesses to integrate and modernize their applications with a strong foundation that is cyber resilient, scalable and cost efficient.
Centrally manage encryption keys, enhance security, and simplify compliance across hybrid cloud environments.
Case studies
The Belgian Ministry of Finance leveraged IBM LinuxONE to achieve significant cost and energy efficiencies while delivering reliable services to 11.7 million citizens.
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Resources
See how IBM LinuxONE 5 lowers the total cost of ownership and reduces x86 cores by up to 94%.
Footnotes
1 DISCLAIMER: IBM internal performance tests for the core consolidation study compared an IBM Machine Type 9175 Max136 with 136 configurable processor units with an x86 solution that used a commercially available enterprise server with two 5th gen Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ processors and 64 cores per CPU. Workloads consisted of a containerized OLTP WebSphere Liberty v25 application running on Red Hat OCP v4.17 and an EDB Postgres for Kubernetes v1.25 on the same OCP cluster. Both solutions used Red Hat® Enterprise Linux v9.5 and KVM. Test results were extrapolated to a typical, complete customer IT solution that included production and non-production IT environments isolated from each other. The IBM Machine Type 9175 solution required one Max136 and the x86 solution required 23 compared servers. Results may vary.
2 IBM internal tests show that replacing an x86 solution comprised of three-year-old and older servers running cloud-native, containerized workloads with an IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5 can save up to 76% in the total cost of ownership over 5 years.
DISCLAIMER: IBM® internal performance tests targeted customer with an existing x86-based solution and compared it to the following alternative solution. IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5 Machine Type 9175 MAX 136 system consisting of three CPC drawers containing 136 configurable processor units and six I/O drawers to support both network and external storage. The x86 and IBM LinuxONE Emperor 5 solutions had access to the same storage. The workloads consisted of a containerized online transaction processing (OLTP) WebSphere Liberty v25 application running on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) v4.17, and an EDB Postgres for Kubernetes v1.25 on the same OCP cluster simulating core online banking functions. Both solutions used Red Hat Enterprise Linux v9.5 and KVM. Results may vary. The existing x86 solution used servers with Intel® Xeon® Gen 2 and older processors. The test results were extrapolated to a typical, complete customer IT solution that consisted of isolated from each other production and non-production IT environments. TCO included software, hardware, energy, network, data center space, and labor costs.