NEC Express5800/1000 Series

NEC Enterprise Server

NEC Express5800/1000 Technology Guide Vol.1

Reliability and Perfor mance through the fusion of the NEC “A3 ” chipset and the Dual- Core Intel® Itanium® processor

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Contents

NEC Express5800/1000 Series Very Large Cache VLC Architecture Crossbar-less configuration Available only on 1080RfDedicated Cache Coherency Interface CCI Resource virtualization through Floating IO A3 Chipset CellDual-Core Intel Itanium processor Compiler Features for performance improvementIntel Itanium processor supported compiler VLC Architecture Crossbar-less configurationDedicated Cache Coherency Interface CCI Directory Based Cache Coherency RAS Design Philosophy Framework for hardware, firmware and OS error handling Partial Chipset degradation Memory Mirroring Complete modularization and redundancy Highly Available Center Plane Substantial strengthening of data integrity Diagnostics of the error detection circuitsExpress5800/1000 Series Cell card Two independent power sources Enhanced error detection of the high-speed interconnectRealization of a mainframe-class platform serviceability Internet Investment Protection Superior standard chassis configurationResource virtualization through floating I/O Multi OS support / Rich application lineup L1 Cache/core 16KB I / 16KB D Processor Dual Core Intel Itanium processorL2 Cache/core 1MB I / 256KB D L3 Cache/core 12MB

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