16 IBM BladeCenter PS700, PS701, and PS702 Technical Overview and Introduction
Table 1-5 shows the physical dimension of the BladeCenter chassis that supports the
POWER7 processor based Blade Servers.
Table 1-5 Physical dimension of Supported BladeCenter chassis
1.5 System features
The PS700, PS701, and PS702 blade servers are 4-core, 8-core and 16-core POWER7
processor-based blade servers.This section describes the features on each of the POWER7
blade server. The following topics are covered:
1.5.1, “PS700 system features” on page 16
1.5.2, “PS701 system features” on page 18
1.5.3, “PS702 system features” on page 20
1.5.4, “Minimum features for the POWER7 processor-based blade servers” on page 21
1.5.5, “Power supply features” on page 22
1.5.6, “Processor” on page 22
1.5.7, “Memory features” on page 23
1.5.8, “I/O features” on page 24
1.5.9, “Disk features” on page 28
1.5.10, “Standard onboard features” on page 28
1.5.1 PS700 system features
The BladeCenter PS700, model 8406-70Y, is shown in Figure 1-10 on page 17. The features
of the server are as follows:
Machine type and model number
8406-70Y
Form factor
Single-wide (30 mm) blade
Processors:
– Single-socket 4-core 64-bit POWER7 processor operating at a 3.0 GHz clock speed.
– Based on CMOS 12S 45 nm SOI (silicon-on-insulator) technology,
– Power consumption is 150w/socket
– Single-wide (SW) Blade package
Memory
–8 DIMM Slots
– Minimum capacity 8 GB, maximum capacity 64 GB
– Industry standard VLP DDR3 DIMMs
Dimension BladeCenter H BladeCenter S BladeCenter E
a
a. PS700 only. The PS701 and PS702 are not supported in BladeCenter E chassis
BladeCenter HT
Height 15.75“ (400 mm) 12” (305 mm) 12” (305 mm) 21“ (528 mm)
Width 17.4” (442 mm) 17.5” (445 mm) 17.5” (445 mm) 17.4” (442 mm)
Depth 28” (711 mm) 28.9” (734 mm) 28” (711 mm) 27.8” (706 mm)