The X455 Base Models; Front And Rear Views - IBM 88553RX Installation Manual

1.2 The x455 base models

Powered by XA-64 Enterprise X-Architecture and the 64-bit Itanium 2 "Madison"
processors, the x455 server brings the future of 64-bit processing and
production-level reliability to your data centers today. Featuring
mainframe-inspired advanced mission-critical functions, you can depend on
these 16-way-capable enterprise servers to run your complex business
applications around the clock.
The initial models of the x455 are listed in Table 1-2.
Table 1-2 Initial x455 base models
Base model
Itanium 2 processors
Max SMP
Memory
L1 cache
L2 cache
L3 cache
XceL4 Accelerator Cache
The base models can also be connected together to form two-node (eight CPUs)
and four-node (16 CPUs) configurations. See "Multinode scalable partitions" on
page 22 for details.

1.2.1 Front and rear views

Figure 1-1 on page 5 shows the front view of the x455 showing the system
components.
IBM Eserver xSeries 455 Planning and Installation Guide
4
8855-1RX 8855-2RX
1 x 1.3 GHz 2 x 1.4 GHz
4-way 4-way
1 GB 2 GB
32 KB 32 KB
256 KB 256 KB
3 MB 4 MB
64 MB 64 MB
8855-3RX
2 x 1.5 GHz
4-way
2 GB
32 KB
256 KB
6 MB
64 MB