Basic System Building Blocks

The basic system building blocks used to configure a system are as follows:

Figure 1-2 “Typical SD16/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 SD32 cabinet may contain up to eight cell boards (32 processors), four I/O card cages, four 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 SD16 cabinet may contain up to four cell boards (16 processors), four I/O card cages, five I/O fans, four system cooling fans, four bulk power supplies, and two PDCA. Additionally, to the above, two backplane power supplies provides N+1 for the SD16.

Figure 1-1 Server Cabinet Components

Figure 1-2 Typical SD16/SD32 Installation

Figure 1-3 Typical SD64 Installation

Figure 1-4 Typical Installation with IOX

Support Management Station

The Superdome and hp 9000 Superdome SMS is an hp Proliant M350-G3 PC, either a desktop or a rack-mounted unit. The rack-mounted unit uses a TFT-5600 rack-mount LCD monitor and keyboard.