IBM System x3850 X5 Implementation Guide

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Figure 5-5 HX5 1-Node Speed Burst Card block diagram
Figure 5-6 shows where the Speed Burst Card is installed on the HX5.
Figure 5-6 Installing the Speed Burst Card
5.7 IBM MAX5 for BladeCenter
IBM MAX5 for BladeCenter, which is shown in Figure 5-3 on page 180, is a memory
expansion blade that attaches to HX5 2-socket blade servers. It has the following system
architecture features:
򐂰 IBM EXA memory controller
򐂰 Twenty-four DIMM slots and 6 memory buffers
򐂰 Four DIMM slots per memory buffer (two per channel)
򐂰 VLP DDR3 memory in 4 GB and 8 GB capacities, 1333 MHz
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QPI
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16 DDR3 memory DIMMs: one DIMM per channel
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Processor 1

IBM System x3850 X5 Specifications

General

Processor Cores	Up to 10 cores per processor
Chipset	Intel 7500
Hard Drive Interface	SAS/SATA
Processor	Intel Xeon E7-4800 series, Intel Xeon E7-8800 series
Memory Slots	64 DIMM slots
Storage	Up to 16 x 2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA HDDs or SSDs
RAID Support	RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10
Network Interface	Integrated Gigabit Ethernet
Operating System Support	Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, VMware vSphere
Form Factor	4U Rack