The X450 Product Line - IBM xSeries 450 Planning And Installation Manual

Support for major storage subsystems, including Fibre Channel and
ServeRAID™
Light path diagnostics and the Remote Supervisor Adapter for systems
management
Integrated dual 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet controller

1.1 The x450 product line

Powered by XA-64 Enterprise X-Architecture and 64-bit Itanium 2 "Madison"
processors, xSeries 450 servers bring the future of 64-bit processing and
production-level reliability to your data centers today. Featuring
mainframe-inspired, advanced mission-critical function, you can depend on these
four-way-capable enterprise servers to run your complex business applications
around the clock.
The models of the x450 that will be available on July 1 are listed in Table 1-1.
Table 1-1 Initial x450 models
Model Standard processors
8688-4RX 1x 1.3 GHz Intel Itanium 2
8688-5RX 1x 1.4 GHz Intel Itanium 2
8688-6RX 1x 1.5 GHz Intel Itanium 2
IBM had ealier announced models that were based on the Itanium 2 "McKinley"
processor, but these have been withdrawn due to a bug in these processors.
These models are listed in Table 1-2.
Table 1-2 Withdrawn "McKinley" processor-based models
Model Standard processors
8688-1RX 1x 900 MHz Intel Itanium 2
8688-2RX 2x 1.0 GHz Intel Itanium 2
8688-3RX 2x 1.0 GHz Intel Itanium 2
The x450 models support one, two, three, and four processors.
The attachment of a single RXE-100 Remote Expansion Enclosure is also
supported using either a single or two remote I/O cables. The RXE-100 has six
PCI-X slots standard, upgradable to 12 PCI-X slots, giving the customer up to a
total of 12 PCI-X or 18 PCI-X slots respectively.
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Max SMP L2 cache
4-way 256 KB
4-way 256 KB
4-way 256 KB
Max SMP L2 cache
4-way 256 KB
4-way 256 KB
4-way 256 KB
L3 cache Std memory
3 MB 1 GB (2x 512 MB)
4 MB 2 GB (4x 512 MB)
6 MB 2 GB (4x 512 MB)
L3 cache Std memory
1.5 MB 1 GB (2x 512 MB)
1.5 MB 2 GB (4x 512 MB)
3 MB 2 GB (4x 512 MB)