CPU box
3.1 CPU box
The CPU box contains one system board.
The system board contains a processor chip with the following features:
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four CPU cores with a joint cache
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two IOPs (I/O processors)
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one Mac (Memory Access Controller)
The CPU box, together with AROMA-P, occupies six height units (HUs) in the rack.
3.2 Channel box (CHE box)
Depending on the configuration level, up to six channel boxes (#0 through #5) are possible.
In the basic configuration, the SU500 has two channel boxes, channel box #0 and channel
box #5.
Up to eight channel modules, each with two FC channels (8 Gbps), can be integrated into
a channel box. Only in the case of the first channel box is the first slot already occupied on
the system side.
A channel box occupies two height units (HUs) in the rack.
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