Hardware Components - IBM RS/6000 SP Handbook

Helps reduce the complexities and costs of systems management, lowering
the total cost of ownership and allowing simplification of application service
level management. Additionally, this solution leverages investment in
hardware and software, allowing better sharing of resources and licenses and
distributing idle cycles instead of hot spots. Also, it provides the infrastructure
that supports improved availability, data sharing, and response time.

1.4 Hardware components

The basic hardware components of the SP/CES system are as follows:
Processor nodes (include SP nodes, SP-attached servers, Clustered
Enterprise Servers)
Frames with integral power subsystem
Extension nodes (include SP Switch Routers)
SP switches
Control Workstation (CWS)
These components connect to your existing computer network through a local
area network (LAN) making the RS/6000 SP system accessible from any
network-attached workstation.
The Machine Type (M/T) for the RS/6000 SP system is 9076.
Figure 1-1 on page 10, Figure 1-2 on page 11, and Figure 1-3 on page 12
illustrate sample configurations of RS/6000 SP system universal clustering:
RS/6000 SP system, RS/6000 SP system with SP-attached servers, and CES
system respectively. These figures provide you a rough idea on how the
hardware components are connected.
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