The basic system building blocks used to configure a Superdome system
are as follows:
Support Management Station
Figure 1-2 “Typical SD32 Installation” illustrates
a typical SD16 or SD32 installation.
Figure 1-3 “Typical SD64 Installation ” illustrates
a typical SD64 installation.
Figure 1-4 “Typical Installation with IOX” illustrates
a typical SD64 and I/O expansion cabinet installation.
Server Cabinet
The server cabinet is the main building block. An SD64 comprises
two server cabinets interconnected.
A single cabinet SD32 may contain up to eight cell boards
(32 processors), four I/O card cages, five I/O fans, four system
cooling fans, six bulk power supplies, and two PDCAs. Figure 1-1 “Server Cabinet Components” illustrates the location of these components.
A single cabinet SD16 may contain up to four cell boards, four
I/O card cages, five I/O fans, four system cooling fans, four bulk
power supplies (BPS), and two Power Distribution Control Assemblies
(PDCA). Additionally, to the above, two backplane power supplies
provides N+1 for the SD16.
Support Management Station
The new SMS is an hp Proliant M350-G3 rack-mount version,
which includes the TFT-5600 LCD rack-mount display and keyboard.