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1.1.5. IBM BladeCenter JS43 Express
The IBM BladeCenter JS43 Express is a double-wide blade server based on the POWER6™
processor. The JS43 consists of the JS23 main blade unit and a Symmetric Multiprocessing
(SMP) expansion unit, which occupies an adjacent blade bay in an IBM BladeCenter. The JS43
has the following hardware characteristics:
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4 sockets and 8 POWER6™ cores operating at 4.2 GHz
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32 MB of L3 cache per socket and 4 MB of L2 cache per core
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Up to 16 DDR2 memory DIMMs for a maximum of 128 GB
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4 embedded 1Gb Ethernet ports
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Onboard SAS and USB controllers, EnergyScale™ power management and FSP-1
service processor on the main blade unit
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Up to 2 SAS or SSD onboard drives
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Up to 2 CFFh and 2 CIOv I/O expansion adapters
For IBM i, the JS43 is supported in BladeCenter H and BladeCenter S. The picture below shows
only the SMP expansion unit of the JS43, identifying the major components: