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Table 2 provides details on each of the components in the Itanium Blade.
Memory Capacity Max. 64 GB/server blade (if 4 GB DIMM is used)
Type DDR2 240-pin registered DIMM, 1 rank, 2 rank
Frequency: DDR2-400 3-3-3
Capacity: 512 MB, 1 GB, 2 GB, 4 GB (DDR2-533)
Configuration: 4 bit x 18 devices, 36 devices
Availability Advanced ECC, on-line spare memory, and scrubbing supported
Backplane
interface
Node link for
SMP
Three interconnect ports
PCI Express x 4 links, 2 ports
Gigabit Ether-
net
GbE (SerDes 1.25 Gb/sec.) 2 ports, Wake on LAN supported
USB Two ports per partition
Fast Ethernet
(LAN manage-
ment)
Two100Base/10Base ports
I2C One port
Interface
on the front
of module
USB Two ports per physical partition
Compatible with USB 1.1
Serial One RS-232C port, for debugging only
I/O function SCSI or RAID None (I/O module required for this function
VGA None (I/O module required for this function)
Table 2: Main components of the Intel Itanium Server Blade
Component Manufacturer Quantity Description
Processor Intel Maximum 2 Intel Itanium
Node Control-
ler (NDC)
Hitachi 1 Node controller — controls each system
bus
MC Hitachi 2 Memory controller
DIMM Maximum 16 DDR2 SDRAM
Table 1: Intel Itanium Server Blade features
Item Specifications