Shbs - Matrox Supersight Installation And Hardware Reference

SHBs

The Matrox Supersight SHB-5520 board is a PICMG 1.3 board that intergrates
the following functionality:
• Processing. Processing comes from either one or two multi-core Intel Xeon
processors. There are two types of processors available:
- Intel Xeon Quad-Core E5620 2.4 GHz processor.
- Intel Xeon Six-Core E5645 2.4 GHz processor.
These processors use processor technologies designed to accelerate multimedia and
imaging applications. The processors use multimedia extension (MMX)
technology, streaming SIMD extensions (SSE, SSE2, SSE3, and SSSE3)
technology, and EM64T (Intel 64 architecture) technology. These technologies
are extensions to the Intel architecture, which address the key characteristics of
applications that must handle large amounts of image, video, and graphics data.
• Display. Display capabilities come from a dedicated graphics controller. The
graphics controller allows you to send analog video data to one high-resolution
analog display device, such as an analog monitor or analog flat panel. The
maximum display resolution is 1600 x 1200 with 16 bits/pixel.
• Memory. Memory comes from the SO-DIMM memory modules installed in the
six 204-pin SO-DIMM slots; each slot supports a SO-DIMM memory module
up to 8 Gbytes in size. The DDR3 modules run at up to 666 MHz (DDR3-1333).
The total amount of memory can be 48 Gbytes.
• Mass storage. Mass storage comes from a 2.5-inch SATA hard disk drive,
connected to the first SHB
to a mass storage device containing its operating system; without it, the SHB
cannot boot. The chassis has room for four 2.5-inch SATA hard drives and one
CD RW/DVD ROM drive.
1. The first SHB is the SHB that is in the left-most SHB slot on the backplane, as seen
from the front panel (see the illustration in the Establishing which boards can be
installed section, in Chapter 3: Connecting devices to the backplane and to the
Matrox Supersight SHB-5520 board).
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through the backplane. Each SHB must be connected
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