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1-2 Serverboard Features
At the heart of the NovaScale R423-E2 lies the NovaScale R423-E2 serverboard,
a dual processor serverboard based on the Intel 5520 chipset and designed to
provide maximum performance. Below are the main features of the NovaScale
R423-E2 serverboard. (See Figure 1-1 for a block diagram of the 5520 chipset).
CPU
The NovaScale R423-E2 serverboard supports two Intel® 5500 Series (LGA
1366) processors. Each processor supports two full-width Intel QuickPath Inter
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connect (QPI) @6.4 GT/s with a total of up to 51.2 GB/s Data Transfer Rate (6.4
GB/s per direction).
Chipset
Intel 5520 chipset, including: two 5520 I/O Hubs (North Bridge), and one ICH10R
(South Bridge) Memory
Memory
The NovaScale R423-E2 serverboard has eighteen (18) 240-pin DIMM sockets.
It supports up to 144 GB of DDR3 Reg. ECC 1333/1066/800 MHz Memory mo-
dules (see section 5-6 in Chapter 5 for memory population).
Serial ATA
A SATA controller is integrated into the ESB2 (South Bridge) portion of the 5520
chipset to provide a six-port 3 Gb/s Serial ATA subsystem, which is RAID 0, 1, 10
and 5 supported. The Serial ATA drives are hot-swappable units.
Note:
The operating system you use must have RAID support to enable the
hot-swap capability and RAID function of the Serial ATA drives.
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