Intel SGI Altix 450 User Manual

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Contents

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Operation Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

ESD Precaution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Safety Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

System Controller Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Console Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Connecting to the System Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Communicating with the System Controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Powering the System On and Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Preparing to Power On . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Powering On and Off at the Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Powering On and Off from the L1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Powering-On and Off From the L2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Using Embedded Support Partner (ESP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Monitoring Your Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

2D Graphics Video Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Installing Optional Components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

I/O Blade Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Adding or Removing Disk Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Reconfigure the System Disk Drive(s) for RAID 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

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System Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

System Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

System Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

System Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Modularity and Scalability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Distributed Shared I/O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

ccNUMA Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Cache Coherency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Non-uniform Memory Access (NUMA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

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