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The PS702 Express is a low energy consumption blade that allows minimal start-up costs as you are able to always grow.  The PS702 Express blade utilizes the Power 7 processor technology and optimizes performance with a system or a virtual environment.

• Form factor: Doublewide blade server for BladeCenter S, BladeCenter H, or BladeCenter HT chassis
• Processor cores: Sixteen 64-bit 3.0 GHz POWER7 cores with AltiVec SIMD and Hardware Decimal Floating-Point acceleration
• Level 2 (L2) cache: 256 KB per processor core
• Level 3 (L3) cache: 4 MB per processor core
• Memory (std/max):
  • Base offering: 32 GB (8 x 4 GB)
  • Express offering: 64 GB (16 x 4 GB), up to 128 GB maximum per blade, sixteen DIMM slots, ECC IBM Chipkill DDR3 SDRAM running at 1066 MHz (4 GB DIMMs) 800 MHz (8 GB DIMMs)
• Internal disk storage: Two 300 or 600 GB GB 2.5″ Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 10K rpm non-hot-swappable disk drive; No disk drive required on base offering.
• Networking:  Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapter (IVE) Dual Gigabit and support for optional dual-gigabit Ethernet
• I/O upgrade:  Two PCI-E CIOv Expansion Card and two PCI-E CFFh High Speed Expansion Card
• Optional connectivity:  1 and 10 Gbps Ethernet, 4 and 8 Gbps Fibre Channel, 4X InfiniBand, SAS Expansion
• PowerVM:
  • PowerVM Express Edition: Includes Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) with Integrated Virtualization Manager and PowerVM Lx86
  • PowerVM Standard Edition: Adds shared processor pools and micropartitioning
  • PowerVM Enterprise Edition: Adds active memory sharing and live partition mobility
• Systems management:
  • Integrated systems management processor, IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager, light path diagnostics, Predictive Failure Analysis, Cluster Systems Management (CSM), Serial Over LAN, IPMI compliant
• RAS features:
  • IBM Chipkill ECC detection and correction
  • Processor Instruction Retry
  • Service processor with fault monitoring
  • Hot-swappable disk bays (in BladeCenter S chassis)
  • Hot-plug power supplies and cooling fans (in chassis)
  • Dynamic Processor Deallocation
  • Dynamic deallocation of logical partitions and PCI bus slots
  • Extended error handling on PCI-E slots
  • Redundant power supplies and cooling fans (in chassis)
• Operating systems
  • AIX V5.3 or later, AIX V6.1 or later
  • IBM i 6.1 or later1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for POWER (SLES10 SP3) or later
  • SLES11 SP1 or later Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 for POWER (RHEL5.5) or later
  • RHEL6.1 or later
• High availability IBM PowerHA family
• System dimensions:
  • PS702 Express blade: 9.65 in (245 mm) H x 2.32 in (59 mm) W x 17.55 in (445 mm) D; weight: 19.2 lb (8.7 kg)
  • BladeCenter H chassis: 15.75 in (400 mm) H x 17.5 in (444 mm) W x 28.0 in (711 mm) D; weight: 350 lb (159 kg)
  • BladeCenter S chassis: 12.0 in (306 mm) H x 17.5 in (444 mm) W x 28.3 in (733 mm) D; weight: 240 lb (108.9 kg)