Table 1: Intel Itanium Server Blade features

 

 

 

Item

 

Specifications

 

 

 

Memory

Capacity

Max. 64 GB/server blade (if 4 GB DIMM is used)

 

 

 

 

Type

DDR2 240-pin registered DIMM, 1 rank, 2 rank

 

 

Frequency: DDR2-400 3-3-3

 

 

Capacity: 512 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB (DDR2-533)

 

 

Configuration: 4 bit x 18 devices, 36 devices

 

 

 

 

Availability

Advanced ECC, on-line spare memory, and scrubbing supported

 

 

 

Backplane

Node link for

Three interconnect ports

interface

SMP

 

 

 

 

 

PCI Express

x 4 links, 2 ports

 

 

 

 

Gigabit Ether-

GbE (SerDes 1.25 Gb/sec.) 2 ports, Wake on LAN supported

 

net

 

 

 

 

 

USB

Two ports per partition

 

 

 

 

Fast Ethernet

Two100Base/10Base ports

 

(LAN manage-

 

 

ment)

 

 

 

 

 

I2C

One port

 

 

 

Interface

USB

Two ports per physical partition

on the front

 

Compatible with USB 1.1

of module

 

 

Serial

One RS-232C port, for debugging only

 

 

 

 

I/O function

SCSI or RAID

None (I/O module required for this function

 

 

 

 

VGA

None (I/O module required for this function)

 

 

 

Table 2 provides details on each of the components in the Itanium Blade.

Table 2: Main components of the Intel Itanium Server Blade

Component

Manufacturer

Quantity

Description

 

 

 

 

Processor

Intel

Maximum 2

Intel Itanium

 

 

 

 

Node Control-

Hitachi

1

Node controller — controls each system

ler (NDC)

 

 

bus

 

 

 

 

MC

Hitachi

2

Memory controller

 

 

 

 

DIMM

 

Maximum 16

DDR2 SDRAM

 

 

 

 

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