Hitachi 1000 manual Intel Itanium Server Blade features

Chapter 3

Intel Itanium Server Blade

The BladeSymphony 1000 can support up to eight blades for a total of up to 16 Itanium CPU sockets, or 32 cores, running Microsoft Windows or Linux. Up to four Intel Itanium Server Blades can be connected via the high-speed backplane to form a high-performance SMP server of up to 16 cores.

Each Intel Itanium Server Blade, illustrated in Figure 4, includes 16 DDR2 main memory slots. Using 4 GB DIMMs, this equates to 64 GB per server blade (16 GB per core) or 256 GB in a 16 core SMP configuration, making it an ideal candidate for large in-memory databases and very large data sets. Each server blade also includes two gigabit Ethernet ports, which connect to the internal gigabit Ethernet switch in the chassis, as well as two front-side accessible USB 1.1 ports for local media connectivity and one RS-232 port for debugging purposes.

Figure 4. Intel Itanium Server Blade

Intel Itanium Server Blades include the features listed in Table 1.

Table 1: Intel Itanium Server Blade features

Item		Specifications
Processors	Processor	Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor 9100 series, 1.66 GHz L3=24 MB
	model and	FSB=667 MHz: 2
	maximum	Intel Itanium Processor 9100 series, 1.66 GHz L3=18 MB
	number of	FSB=667 MHz: 2
	installed	Intel Itanium Processor 9100 series, 1.42 GHz L3=12 MB
	processors	FSB=400 MHz: 2
	SMP	Maximum 16 cores with four server blade configuration
	configuration

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