User`s guide

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Chapter 1
1. Introduction
The SGI Rackable C2108-TY11 server is a 2U rackmount server (see Figure 1-1). It has two main
subsystems: the 2U server chassis and the dual-processor serverboard.
Figure 1-1 SGI Rackable C2108-TY11 Server
The server has the following configuration options:
• One or two 64-bit Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series (Westmere-EP) or 5500 series
(Nehalem-EP) processors
• 1 to 18 memory DDR3 DIMMs
• Four low-profile PCIe x8 Gen 2.0 slots
• Two low-profile PCIe x16 Gen 2.0 slots
• One low-profile PCIe x4 Gen 1.0 slot
• 8 hot-swappable SATA/SAS disk drives (HDDs or SSDs)
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