HP ProLiant DL585 G7 server technology

cache and reduces coherence-traffic overload on the HT links, resulting in faster queries in both cache-

and compute-intensive applications.

AMD Dual Dynamic Power Management™

AMD Opteron processors use AMD Dual Dynamic Power Management. This feature powers the

processor core and memory controller independently and delivers increased performance and

improved power management.

AMD Virtualization™ technology

AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) technology is a hardware-based feature that translates virtual to physical

memory addresses using Rapid Virtualization Indexing. AMD-V technology provides increased

performance and reduced latency.

AMD Core Select

AMD Core Select uses the BIOS to select the number of software-visible cores per processor.

Compliant operating systems and applications can recognize the reduced core count, which

decreases software-licensing costs. This can improve performance of applications not written to make

use of the full number of processor cores in the system by giving them access to more cache and

greater memory bandwidth per thread. The DL585 G7 has a ROM-Based Setup Utility (RBSU) option

(Advanced->Processor Options) that allows two different configurations:

 All cores enabled [default]

 Enable only half of the cores [half disabled] per socket

In a multi-processor configuration, the number of active cores per processor must be equal.

AMD SR5690 and SP5100 chipsets

The DL585 G7 makes use of both the AMD SR5690 Northbridge and SP5100 Southbridge chipsets

to offer high performance and increased expandability. With transfer speeds up to 2.5Gb/s per lane,

the primary SR5690 chipset interfaces to the secondary SP5100 chipset by utilizing a four-lane A-link

Express II interface.

Additional features of the SP5100 chipset are:

 Generation II SATA ports with transfer rates up to 3 Gb/s, compliant with the SATA 2.5

specification, supporting both 1.5 and 3.0 compliant devices. The server uses two ports, one

for an internal optical drive (DVD), and one for an internal Solid State Drive (SSD).

 Eight USB 2.0 ports consisting of two internal ports, two front ports, two rear ports, one USB

to SD card reader bridge interface, and one Baseboard Management Controller interface.

 One PCI host bus controller that supports a 33 MHz PCI bus that in turn supports six bus

master devices. The DL585 G7 also supports a single internal graphics controller on this

interface.

 SMBus Rev 2.0 compliant controller.

 Legacy Interrupt and DMA controllers.

 LPC Host Bus controller that supports two Master/DMA devices, including support of TPM

version 1.1 and 1.2 devices.

 Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) device support.

 Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) support.