Engineered with the needs of enterprise organizations in mind, the IBM x3950 M2 provides a scalable, efficient and highly reliable solution. This fourth generation X-Architecture enterprise server combines 64-bit performance in a balanced design. The x3950 M2 can help organizations meet business demands with confidence, and since many organizations require servers that expand as business grows, the x3950 M2 provides the flexibility to run more applications on the same piece of hardware. These features deliver an optimized solution for large database enterprise application and virtualization services.The x3950 M2 provides an uncomplicated, cost-effective and highly flexible solution. With the ability to scale up to a maximum of 96 cores using Intel six-core processors, while maintaining balanced performance between processors, memory and I/O, thex3950 M2 can easily accommodate business expansion and the resulting need for additional application space.The scalable partition defines a multinode configuration that interconnects two, three, or four servers for up to 16-way operation.