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X9DRT-P/-PT/-PIBQ/-PIBF Motherboard User’s Manual
1-7 Advanced Power Management
The new advanced power management features supported by this motherboard
include IPNM and ME. Please note that you will need to do the following to use
these two new features:
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Use a power supply that supports PMBus 1.1 or 1.2.
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Install the NMView software in your system. NMView is optional and can be
purchased from Supermicro.
Intel
®
Intelligent Power Node Manager (IPNM)
The Intel
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Intelligent Power Node Manager (IPNM) provides your system with
real-time thermal control and power management for maximum energy efficiency.
Although IPNM is supported by the BMC (Baseboard Management Controller),
your system must also have IPNM-compatible Management Engine (ME) firmware
installed in your system for IPNM support.
Note
: Support for IPNM Specification Version 1.5 or Vision 2.0 depends
on the power supply used in the system.
Management Engine (ME)
The Management Engine, which is an ARC controller embedded in the PCH, pro-
vides Server Platform Services (SPS) to your system. The services provided by
SPS are different from those provided by the ME on client platforms.
1-8 Overview of the Nuvoton WPCM450R Controller
The Nuvoton WPCM450R controller, a Baseboard-Management controller (BMC),
features 2D/VGA-compatible graphic cores that provide excellent graphics display
support of 1280 x 1024 @ 85Hz. The WPCM450R offers versatile PCI interface
capability, creating multimedia virtualization via Keyboard/Video/Mouse Redirec-
tion (KVMR) and is ideal for remote system management.
The WPCM450R controller interfaces with the host system via PCI connections
to communicate with the graphics cores. It supports USB 2.0 and 1.1 for remote
keyboard/mouse/virtual media emulation. It also provides LPC interface support to
control Super IO functions. The WPCM450R controller is connected to the network
via an external Ethernet PHY module or shared NCSI connections.
The WPCM450R communicates with onboard components via six SMBus inter-
faces, PECI (Platform Environment Control Interface) buses, and General Purpose
I/O ports.
