Technology and architecture of HP ProLiant Intel-
based 300-series G6 (Generation 6) servers
Technology brief
Abstract.............................................................................................................................................. 3
Introduction......................................................................................................................................... 3
Multi-level caches ............................................................................................................................. 3
Integrated memory controller ............................................................................................................. 4
Hyper Threading.............................................................................................................................. 5
Turbo Boost technology..................................................................................................................... 6
Memory.............................................................................................................................................. 6
DDR-3............................................................................................................................................. 6
I/O technologies ................................................................................................................................. 9
PCI Express technology..................................................................................................................... 9
Networking technologies ................................................................................................................ 12
Efficient power delivery................................................................................................................... 13
Dynamic Power Capping ................................................................................................................ 15
Phase shedding ............................................................................................................................. 16
DIMM Choices ............................................................................................................................. 7
Memory Mirroring with DDR3 ........................................................................................................ 8
SAS-2 ....................................................................................................................................... 10
Battery backed write cache ......................................................................................................... 11
Zero Memory RAID..................................................................................................................... 11
Software RAID ........................................................................................................................... 12
Common slot power supplies ....................................................................................................... 13
Voltage regulation ...................................................................................................................... 14
Memory phase shedding............................................................................................................. 16
Dynamic CPU phase shedding ..................................................................................................... 17
Disabling processor cores............................................................................................................ 17
Maximum memory data rates....................................................................................................... 17