Introducing The Challenge Deskside Servers; Features And Options - Silicon Graphics POWER CHALLENGE User Manual

Features and Options

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Introducing the Challenge Deskside Servers

The Challenge deskside systems, model CMN A011, are high-performance
servers in a compact deskside enclosure. This guide contains information for
end users about the POWER Challenge and Challenge deskside systems
hardware.
Your Challenge deskside server comes with the following features:
• POWER Challenge models come with an IP21 CPU board using one or
two R8000™ microprocessors on each board
• Challenge models come with an IP19 CPU board with up to four MIPS
R4400™ microprocessors on each board
• Up to 2 GB of RAM on Challenge system memory boards and up to
6 GB of RAM in POWER Challenge systems
• An IO4 board with multiple control functionality and expandability
(also known as the POWERchannel-2)
• Space for up to seven half-height SCSI peripherals in the chassis
• The Silicon Graphics
data sharing and high-speed block data transfers between main
memory and the I/O subsystem; the 256-bit Ebus (also known as the
POWERpath-2 system bus) supports multiple processor operations
• A 40-bit address bus, which provides addressing to parity-checked
high-speed data transfers between the CPU(s) and memory board(s)
• 64-bit operating system support (on POWER Challenge)
• Five VME™ expansion slots (only two slots are available when a
system is ordered with the visualization console option)
• One RS-422 and three RS-232 serial ports
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Ebus, which supports protocols for consistent
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