Intel SGI Altix 450 manual Power-on and boot

System Features

•Power-on and boot:

–Automatic testing occurs after you power on the system. (These power-on self-tests or POSTs are also referred to as power-on diagnostics or PODs).

–Processors and memory are automatically de-allocated when a self-test failure occurs.

–Boot times are minimized.

•Further RAS features:

–Optional RAID 1 in base I/O (IA2 blade), check with your SGI sales or service representative for availability. Note that RAID 0 (striping), while supported by the IA2 hardware, is not recommended as a RAS option.

–Systems have a local field-replaceable unit (FRU) analyzer.

–All system faults are logged in files.

–Memory can be scrubbed using error checking code (ECC) when a single-bit error occurs.

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