Chapter | 1. | Introducing |
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The RS/6000 Enterprise Server Model H80 Series | is | a | multiprocessor, | multibus |
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system | packaged | in |
| drawers. The | processors | and | memory | are | packaged | in | a | 5 | |||||||||||
(CEC | drawer), and the I/O devices are in a 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
consists of one CEC drawer and one I/O | |||||||||||||||||||||||
drawer | in | the | same | rack. Connections | between | the | CEC drawer | and | I/O | drawers | |||||||||||||
are made through a number of cables | which include the V/S COMM cable, RIO | ||||||||||||||||||||||
(Remote | Input | Output) | cables, | and |
| JTAG cable. |
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The CEC drawer supports one processor | card, | which | can | have | up to | six | processors, | ||||||||||||||||
each | having | its | own | L2 | cache. | The | processors | share | common | system | memory. |
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The system | memory | resides | on | one | or | two memory riser cards in the CEC drawer. | |||||||||||||||||
Up to 16 GB of | user | memory | can |
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Power | is | provided | to | the | system | rack | through | an | ac | power | cord |
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a distribution bus. Power is connected from the distribution bus to each drawer independently. All drawers use 200 - 240 V ac power.
The primary I/O drawer has the following:
Ÿ 14 PCI slots
Ÿ System operator panel
ŸSPCN controller
Ÿ Interrupt and system bus control logic
ŸService Processor
ŸOptional boot DASDs
The PCI bus speeds are as follows:
Ÿ Up to 33Mhz for the four 32 bit slots at 5 V
Ÿ Up to 66Mhz for the ten 64 bit slots at 3.3 V
Slots | 13 | and 14 support either 32 | or | 64 bit | PCI | adapters. The | remain | |
slots | are 32 | bit | only. |
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The | primary I/O drawer has space for up to three media | devices (tape, | ||||||
and | diskette | drive). Two optional disk drives | can | occupy | PCI | slots 13 and | 14. |
Chapter 1. Introducing the Model1 H80