Process up to 5 million inference operations per second with less than 1 ms response time¹
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Overview
A full-stack AI solution
IBM z17™ delivers built‑in AI that accelerates developer productivity and shrinks modernization timelines. With built-in AI acceleration and a fully integrated stack, teams can understand, optimize, and evolve critical applications faster, turning complexity into continuous progress.
Specifications
Choose from three z17 configurations
Designed to support the growth in IT requirements for multi-frame clients, with superior scalability & efficiency up to 208 cores.
Fully packaged IBM solution including IBM racks and iPDUs designed for colocation with other technologies.
Components designed for colocation with other technologies; IBM-installed in a client provided rack.
Maximum number of engines
208
82
82
Maximum number of CPC drawers
4
2
2
Maximum number of IO drawers
12
3
3
Number of frames
4
1
No frame
Colocate with other technologies in the rack (e.g.: storage, switch)
No
Yes
Yes
Frequency
5.5 GHz
4.8 GHz
4.8 GHz
Telum II chip
Yes
Yes
Yes
Maximum memory
64 TB
18 TB
18 TB
Sizes (max engines)
43, 90, 136, 183 and 208
6, 18, 39 and 82
6, 18, 39 and 82
Specification sheets
Technical guides
Interactive tour
Coming soon
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Features
Key capabilities
Integrations
Essential integrations
Explore the latest release and leverage the computing power of the IBM Z® platform to help drive business transformation and accelerate innovation.
An AI-driven IT operations management hub that boosts mainframe resilience by unifying siloed data, streamlining insights and accelerating response.
Integrating IBM Z into your hybrid cloud ensures seamless workloads across platforms with security, resiliency and AI-driven insights.
Linux® on IBM Z is a robust enterprise platform that merges open source flexibility with unmatched performance, reliability and security.
Footnotes
¹ DISCLAIMER: Performance result is extrapolated from IBM® internal tests running on IBM Systems Hardware of machine type 9175. The benchmark was executed with 1 thread performing local inference operations using a LSTM based synthetic Credit Card Fraud Detection (CCFD) model (https://github.com/IBM/ai-on-z-fraud-detection) to exploit the IBM Integrated Accelerator for AI. A batch size of 160 was used. IBM Systems Hardware configuration: 1 LPAR running Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 9.4 with 6 IFLs (SMT), 128 GB memory. 1 LPAR with 2 CPs, 4 zIIPs and 256 GB memory running IBM z/OS® 3.1 with IBM z/OS Container Extensions (zCX) feature. Results may vary.
2 *Upon Spyre Accelerator availability. The IBM Spyre Accelerator is current in technology preview. https://www.ibm.com/docs/announcements/z17-makes-more-possible