Hitachi 1000 User Manual

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

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
interface

Node link for
SMP

Three interconnect ports

PCI Express

x 4 links, 2 ports

Gigabit Ether-
net

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

USB

Two ports per partition

Fast Ethernet
(LAN manage-
ment)

Two100Base/10Base ports

I2C

One port

Interface
on the front
of module

USB

Two ports per physical partition
Compatible with USB 1.1

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: Main components of the Intel Itanium Server Blade

Component

Manufacturer

Quantity

Description

Processor

Intel

Maximum 2

Intel Itanium

Node Control-
ler (NDC)

Hitachi

1

Node controller — controls each system
bus

MC

Hitachi

2

Memory controller

DIMM

Maximum 16

DDR2 SDRAM

Table 1: Intel Itanium Server Blade features

Item

Specifications

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