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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