Filter
Top Products
Chapter 1. General description 5
Two SPCN ports
In addition, the p5-570 building block features two internal Ultra320 SCSI controllers,
redundant hot-swap power supply and redundant hot-swap cooling fans, and redundant
processor power regulators (FC 7875).
There is a CUoD card as part of the hardware configuration. This card stores VPD, and
processor information required for management of CUoD features. Since the p5-570 can
have processors in up to four physical building blocks, the card can be replaced or updated
by the IBM service representative to reflect hardware configuration changes.
The system supports 32-bit and 64-bit applications, and it requires specific levels of operating
system. (See 2.12, “Operating system requirements” on page 49.)
1.3.1 Processor card features
Each p5-570 building block can contain 2-way processor cards with state-of-the-art, 64-bit,
copper-based, POWER5 microprocessors running at 1.5 GHz, 1.65 GHz, or 1.9 GHz. The
processor cards running at 1.5 GHz support up to eight processors per combined system.
The 1.65 GHz and 1.9 GHz processor card features are available only as Capacity Upgrade
on Demand (CUoD). The initial order of the p5-570 system must contain the feature code
related to the desired processor card, plus it must contain the processor activation feature
code. The feature can be
no-additional-charge CUoD (one processor no additional charge,
belonging to Value Pak options; see 1.4, “Value Paks” on page 11),
CUoD (shipped from
manufacturing as activated, or for later activation of available non-activated processors),
reserve CoD activation of prepaid processor, and On/Off CoD activation to use the On/Off
CoD capabilities. See 3.1, “Capacity on Demand” on page 52 for further details about CoD
activation concepts. Table 1-3 and Table 1-4 on page 5 contain all of the available feature
codes for processor cards that were available at the time of writing.
Table 1-3 Processor card feature codes
Table 1-4 Processor activation feature codes
Note: In a p5-570 combined system made of more than one building block, only the two
HMC ports and the two serial ports in the building block with the service processor are
available to use.
Processor card FC Description
7834 Two processors, two activated
a
, 1.5 GHz, eight DDR1 DIMM sockets
a. The 1.5 GHz processor card does not support CUoD. However, for ordering, any FC 7834
requires two entitlements. The entitlement features are available either full priced or no addi-
tional charge (when ordering in a Value Pak).
7830 Two processors, 0 activated, 1.65 GHz, eight DDR1 DIMM sockets
7832 Two processors, 0 activated, 1.9 GHz, eight DDR1 DIMM sockets
7833 Two processors, 0 activated, 1.9 GHz, eight DDR2 DIMM sockets
Processor card FC Description
One processor
activation
For FC 7834 For FC 7830 For FC 7832 For FC 7833
No-additional charge
CUoD
FC 8456 FC 8452 FC 8454 FC 8455