Chapter 1. Introduction - IBM BladeCenter GPU Expansion Blade Installation Manual

Chapter 1. Introduction

This document provides the installation instructions for the IBM
GPU Expansion Blade, shown in the following illustration.
Note:
1. The illustrations in this document might differ slightly from your hardware.
2. The IBM
3. The expansion blade features one NVIDIA Tesla M2075, M2070Q, or M2090
4. Up to three GPU expansion blades can be attached to a blade server.
5. A five-wide configuration featuring one blade server and four GPU expansion
6. Unless otherwise stated, references to the BladeCenter unit apply to all IBM
The expansion blade comes with a one-year limited warranty. For information
about your warranty, see the Warranty Information document for your device on the
IBM Documentation CD. You can obtain up-to-date information about the expansion
blade and other IBM BladeCenter products at http://www.ibm.com/systems/
bladecenter/.
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This Installation Guide and the most recent versions of other documents that
provide detailed information about the BladeCenter unit, blade server, and
available optional devices are provided in Portable Document Format (PDF) at
http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/.
For service or assistance, see "Getting help and technical assistance," on page 27.
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BladeCenter
expansion blade or the expansion blade throughout this document.
adapter.
blades is available only when configured by IBM. Configuring more than three
expansion blade options to a blade server is not supported.
BladeCenter units.
GPU Expansion Blade is referred to as the GPU
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