Trenton Systems MBT8301 Series, System Hardware Manual

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MBT8301 Technical Reference
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Chapter 2 | Modular Blade System Layout and Specifications
Board Features
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Direct PCI Express
®
3.0 links into the Intel
®
Xeon
®
Processor
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Direct DDR3-1600 Memory Interfaces into the Intel
®
Xeon
®
Processor
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Four DDR3-1600 DIMMs supporting Error Code Correction
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Video interface and IPMI functionality utilizing ASPEED AST2400 SuperIO BMC
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FRU (Field Replaceable Unit) health monitoring and system alarms
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Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 support via Infineon Technologies SLB9665
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Six total SATA/600 (6.0GB/s) interfaces with locking connectors supporting RAID 0, 1, 5, and 10.
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Three onboard the Modular blade card (MBC8240)
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Three pass through to the Midplane (MPI8241)
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Two front-mounted USB 2.0 interfaces
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Six rear-mounted USB 2.0 interfaces
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Full PC compatibility
Processors
Intel
®
Xeon
®
E3-12xx (Haswell-WS) CPUs
Platform Controller Hub (PCH)
Intel
®
C226 (Lynx Point)
Serial Interconnect Interface
PCI Express
®
3.0, 2.0 and 1.1 compatible
BIOS (Flash)
The MBC8240 features the Aptio® 4.x BIOS from American Megatrends, Inc. (AMI) with a ROM-resident
setup utility called the Aptio Text Setup Environment or TSE. (Note: the CARD’s current MBCES008 BIOS
has the Hibernate and Sleep states disabled.) Details of the Aptio TSE are provided in the separate MBC8240
BIOS Technical Reference manual.
Operating Systems
Trenton Systems has successfully tested the MBC8240 processor card with both Linux (Red Hat RHEL,
Centos) and Windows® 7 (32 or 64-bit). However, there are some operating systems that Intel® does not
recommend for use with the board’s Haswell processor and Lynx Point PCH architecture, notably,
Windows® XP (32 or 64-bit), and Windows® 2003 Server.