IBM 88553RX, Installation Manual

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IBM
Eserver
xSeries 455 Planning and Installation Guide
1.2 The x455 base models
Powered by XA-64 Enterprise X-Architecture and the 64-bit Itanium 2 “Madison”
processors, the x455 server brings the future of 64-bit processing and
production-level reliability to your data centers today. Featuring
mainframe-inspired advanced mission-critical functions, you can depend on
these 16-way-capable enterprise servers to run your complex business
applications around the clock.
The initial models of the x455 are listed in Table 1-2.
Table 1-2 Initial x455 base models
The base models can also be connected together to form two-node (eight CPUs)
and four-node (16 CPUs) configurations. See “Multinode scalable partitions” on
page 22 for details.
1.2.1 Front and rear views
Figure 1-1 on page 5 shows the front view of the x455 showing the system
components.
Base model 8855-1RX 8855-2RX 8855-3RX
Itanium 2 processors 1 x 1.3 GHz 2 x 1.4 GHz 2 x 1.5 GHz
Max SMP 4-way 4-way 4-way
Memory 1 GB 2 GB 2 GB
L1 cache 32 KB 32 KB 32 KB
L2 cache 256 KB 256 KB 256 KB
L3 cache 3 MB 4 MB 6 MB
XceL4 Accelerator Cache 64 MB 64 MB 64 MB