IBM Systems Data Sheet IBM Power System S821LC – 1U POWER8 Linux Server A dense, high data throughput server for your enterprise and cloud Pack two IBM® POWER8® processors into a 1U form factor to meet computeintensive workloads Deliver density for virtualization, database, and high-performance computing (HPC) deployments Deploy versatile systems for a broad range of server workloads, ranging from online transaction processing (OLTP), webhosting and big data high throughput In today’s demanding digital economy, business is competition, and you have to do everything you can to separate your business from the rest. With the constant influx of data and data sources, companies need to be able to process data faster than ever before to stay ahead. OpenPOWER LC servers are different by design—engineered at virtually every level to be more powerful and more open. Put your most data-intensive analytics workloads on the servers that were born to run them. IBM Power System S821LC delivers two POWER8 processors into a 1U form factor to meet the compute-intensive workloads of today and grow

The IBM Power System S821LC provides: • Two POWER8 processors in a 1U form factor • Dense virtualization and database deployments, providing more value per server footprint than x86-based alternatives • Leadership multithreading capability enabled by POWER8 with up to 4 times more threads per core than x86 designs1 • Acceleration of a broad range of workloads with one NVIDIA Tesla GPU and a superior input/output (I/O) bandwidth with CAPI • Superior performance with a low acquisition cost

Why IBM? IBM has continually invested in hardware and solution innovation, pushing the performance envelope, resulting in differentiated technology and significant value to our clients. IBM opened its IBM POWER® architecture to the OpenPOWER Foundation, which includes members such as Google, NVIDIA and Rackspace, to collaborate and innovate on hardware technology. IBM’s OpenPOWER LC servers bring performance and total cost of ownership (TCO) leadership to the scale-out Linux market. Additionally, businesses that rely on IBM Power Systems™ servers don’t just value leading technology and applications....