Hitachi 1000 manual Intel Xeon Server Blade components

Chapter 4

Intel Xeon Server Blade

The eight slot BladeSymphony 1000 can accommodate a total of up to eight Dual-Socket, Dual-Core or Quad-Core Intel Xeon Server Blades for up to 64 cores per system. Each Intel Xeon Server Blade supports up to four PCI slots, and provides the option of adding Fibre Channel or SCSI storage. Two on-board gigabit Ethernet ports are also provided, along with IP KVM for remote access, virtual media support, and front-side VGA and USB ports for direct access to the server blade.

Figure 13. Intel Xeon Server Blade

While the Intel Itanium Server Blades provide SMP and the raw performance that the Itanium processors bring to number-crunching jobs, the Intel Xeon Server Blades, which require less power and cooling, and are less expensive, are ideal for supporting infrastructure and application workloads, as well as 32-bit applications. The components of the Intel Xeon Server Blade are listed in Table 4.

Table 4: Intel Xeon Server Blade components

	Dual Core Intel Xeon Processor				Quad Core Intel Xeon
					Processor
Processor	5110 Series	5140	5260 Series		E5430 Series	X5460 Series
Series		Series
Processor Fre-	1.60 GHz	2.33 GHz	3.33 GHz		2.66 GHz	3.16 GHz
quency
Number of Pro-	Maximum 2 (maximum 4 cores)				Maximum 2 (maximum 8 cores)
cessors
Cache Memory	L2: 4 MB		L2: 6 MB		L2: 2 x 6 MB
System Bus	1066 MHz			1333 MHz
(FSB) Fre-
quency
Main Memory	ECC DDR2-667 FB-DIMM Advanced ECC / Memory Mirroring

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