Hardware Detail

The IBM BladeCenter JS20 Type 8842, also known as the blade server, is based on the IBM Power Architecture ™ technologies.

• Two (2) PowerPC 970 processors
  • 512 KB ECC L2 cache
  • 1:2 front side bus ratio to processor frequency
  • Derived from POWER4 technology, adds 162 SIMD instructions
    • 8842 - 21X: (2) 1.6 GHz PPC970, 800MHz front side bus
    • 8842 - 41X: (2) 2.2 GHz PPC970FX, 1.1GHz front side bus
    • 8842 - 42X: as model 41X, plus 8GB memory support and BC-T/NEBS
• (2) Broadcom Gb Ethernet controllers (single chip)
• (1) I/O Expansion Card slot
• Integrated System Management Processor
• Serial Console traffic routed via the LAN (SoL)
• SuSE SLES 8, TurboLinux Enterprise Server 8, RedHat RHEL4, AIX 5.2L
• Dual high availability midplane connections
• Up to 8GB ECC 333MHz DDR Memory via (4) DIMM slots and 2GB memory DIMMs
• 2 x 256MB memory standard
• IBM 512 MB PC2700 CL2.5 ECC DDR RDIMM (73P2275)
• IBM 1 GB PC2700 CL2.5 ECC DDR RDIMM (73P2276)