Hi,

I want to procure latest AIX machines.
AIX6 on POWER6 I think.
Does anyone have practical idea, plz share.
Thanks in advance.

You'll have to provide more information than that. You want a high powered workstation? A low end server? An enterprise server? Describe your needs, objectives and budget. Or ask a much more specific question about some aspect of models you are considering. Then it will be possible to provide some answers that might be of some help.

Thanks for ur reply.
For office purpose.
I want to install latest high computing softwares for the use of many people.
Budget 15 to 20 lakhs lakhs per machine

So, lakh is 100,000 rupees, and it seems 20 lakhs is currently about $41,790 U.S.

For my purposes, I'll assume then that you are looking for more than one machine in the range of 30 to 40 thousand U.S. dollars per machine. That seems to be in the range of some of their Power 520 or 550 Express systems. But we still have very little information about what your needs are. many people = 1000? office purpose = financial? softwares = databases? risk analysis modeling?

Do you have an existing environment you are replacing? Or is this a brand new installation?

Are you talking with sales people already? And getting recommendations?

Try writing a bit more about the details of your environment and needs. Otherwise we are addressing your statement of price and your choice of platform as the primary pieces of information without really knowing whether they are appropriate in the first place. Just for example, you can get the 550 Express running at 5.0GHz, but it is only 2 core in your price range. If you are doing some sort of single threaded modeling that is compute intensive, that could be a good solution. However, if your application is a collection of multi-threaded web2 packages, then something with many more cores or threads might be better, even though they don't run anywhere near as fast individually. This is what the Sun T2 based servers are aimed at.

We also don't know anything about your storage needs. The base price on those IBM servers includes two 146G SAS drives. That's not much. I would mirror those and use them as the boot system, and then look for some other drives or attached storage for data. But that's not in your specification or pricing.

Anyway, sounds like you will be having some fun getting into new equipment.

If you have a limited budget, then a free operating system such as Linux or OpenSolaris on a Nehalem dual socket would give far better performance, for the fraction of a price. You can save lots of money if you are willing to do it yourself.