HP 9000 V2600 SCA - Manual (Page 23)

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1 Overview
This chapter introduces Hewlett-Packard V-Class system components
and includes a brief overview of V2500/V2600 server hardware resources.
Some basic details about HP-UX use also are provided. For details on the
external cabinet controls and displays, see Chapter 2.
The V2500/V2600 model of V-Class server can have up to 128 processors,
128 Gbytes of memory, and 112 PCI I/O cards.
One new feature of the HP V2500/V2600 server is its Scalable
Computing Architecture (SCA) design, which allows multiple V2500/
V2600 cabinets to be connected to form a single HP-UX system. These
SCA features are made available through HP’s Coherent Toroidal
Interconnect (CTI) technology.
A V2500/V2600 server can include from one to four cabinets that contain
the server resources, with each V2500/V2600 cabinet containing from
two to 32 processors, from 512 Mbytes to 32 Gbytes of memory, and up to
28 PCI I/O cards.
Each V-Class system also includes a dedicated workstation connected to
the server: the Service Support Processor (SSP workstation). The Service
Support Processor is used for server booting, monitoring, and other
operations. Details on using the Service Support Processor are provided
in Chapter 3.
This book covers both single-cabinet and multiple-cabinet server
configurations, support, and operations.