Specificiations - IBM NeXtScale System Planning And Implementation Manual

4.3 Specificiations

Table 4-2 lists the standard specifications of the NeXtScale nx360 M4 compute
node and NeXtScale n1200 enclosure.
Table 4-2 Specificaitons
Components Specification
Form factor Half-wide, 1U compute node
Supported IBM NeXtScale n1200 enclosure, 6U high; up to 12 compute nodes per chassis
chassis
Processor Two Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 V2 series processors; QuickPath Interconnect
(QPI) links speed up to 8.0 GT/s. Hyper-Threading Technology and Turbo Boost
Technology. Intel C602J (Patsburg-J) chipset. Processor options:
4-core processors up to 3.5 GHz and 15 MB L3 cache
6-core processors up to 3.5 GHz and 25 MB L3 cache
8-core processors up to 3.3 GHz and 25 MB L3 cache
10-core processors up to 3.0 GHz and 25 MB L3 cache
12-core processors up to 2.7 GHz and 30 MB L3 cache
Memory Up to 8 DIMM sockets (4 DIMMs per processor) supporting DDR3 DIMMs up to 1866
MHz memory speeds. RDIMMs, UDIMMs and LRDIMMs supported. Four memory
channels per processor (one DIMM per channel).
Memory Up to 256 GB with 8x 32 GB LRDIMMs and two processors.
maximums
Memory ECC, memory mirroring, and memory sparing.
protection
Disk drive bays Inside the nx360 M4: One 3.5-inch simple-swap SATA or two 2.5-inch simple swap
SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs, or four 1.8-inch simple-swap SSDs. Not front accessible.
Adding the NeXtScale Storage Native Expansion Tray adds 7 more 3.5-inch
simple-swap drive bays (adds 1U height).
Maximum With the Storage Native Expansion Tray: 32 TB using 8x 4TB 3.5-inch drives.
internal storage Without the Storage Native Expansion Tray: 4.0 TB using 1x 4TB 3.5-inch drive.
RAID support On some models: ServeRAID C100 6Gb SATA controller supporting RAID-0, RAID-1
and RAID-10. Implemented in the Intel C600 chipset. Optional hardware RAID with
supported 6Gbps RAID controllers.
Optical drive No internal bays. Use an external USB drive such as the IBM and Lenovo part number
bays 73P4515 or 73P4516.
Tape drive bays No internal bays. Use an external USB drive.
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