Chapter 1 Introduction

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Basic System Building Blocks

The Superdome family of high-end computers has two new members: Superdome and hp 9000 Superdome. Improvements over the Superdome predecessors include higher processor performance, increased local cell board memory bandwidth, and increased scalability. The Superdome uses the Itanium® 2 single- and dual-core processors, and the hp 9000 Superdome uses the dual-core PA-8800.

The biggest differences between Superdome servers or hp 9000 Superdome servers and earlier Superdome family products include (but are not limited to):

Cell board design using either of the following processors:
1. Itanium® 2 single- and dual-core for Superdome
2. PA-8800 PA-RISC dual-core for hp 9000 Superdome
Firmware packages.
- Management Processor
- CLU—clocks, I ²C bus, and so on.
- PM (Environmental monitors)
- Core I/O (Console in I/O chassis)
- System Superdome (IPF on the cell board)
- System hp 9000 Superdome (PA on the cell board)
- PDHC (SINC comes on the cell board)
- Event dictionary (ED)
12-slot PCI-X I/O card cage
2-GB DIMMS
Two optional support Management Stations
- Windows-based hp Proliant ML350 G3 (PC-SMS)
- HP-UX based hp Server rx2600 (HP-UX SMS)

The Superdome supports HP-UX 11.23 and Windows Server 2003, Datacenter.

The hp 9000 Superdome supports HP-UX 11.11.

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