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5-4 Netra CP3260 Blade Server User’s Guide • April 2009
5.1.6 ARTM Support
ARTM support is routed to the ARTM through the Zone 3 connectors. Typical ARTM
support includes:
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One RS-232 serial console port
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One 10/100/100BASE-T Ethernet management port
Because Netra CP32x0 Advanced RTMs (ARTM) provide additional functionality,
the following interfaces are also routed to the ARTM.
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A x8 PCI-E interface
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Dual 10/100/1000 SERDES Ethernet channels (from Intel NIC)
Power for the ARTMs is provided through the Zone 3 RTM power connector.
5.2 Hardware Modules
This section provides a brief description of the Netra CP3260 hardware modules.
5.2.1 UltraSPARC T2 Processor
The UltraSPARC T2 multicore processor is the basis of the Netra CP3260 blade
server. The UltraSPARC T2 processor is based on chip multithreading (CMT)
technology that is optimized for highly threaded transactional processing. The
UltraSPARC T2 processor improves throughput while using less power and
dissipating less heat than conventional processor designs. It is high performance,
highly integrated processor that implements the 64-bit SPARC V9 architecture. On
the Netra CP3260 blade server, the UltraSPARC T2 processor operates at 1.2 GHz
and contains 16 Kbytes of instruction cache per core and 8 Kbytes of data cache per
core (
FIGURE 5-2
).
Depending on the model purchased, the processor has six or eight UltraSPARC
cores. Each core equates to a 64-bit execution pipeline capable of running eight
threads. The result is that the 8-core processor handles up to 64 active threads
concurrently and a 6-core processor handles up to 48 active threads concurrently.