Datasheet

Small form factor
Maximum internal hard disk and memory capacities may require the replacement of any standard hard drives and/or memory and the population of all hard
disk bays and memory slots with the largest currently supported drives available.
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IBM _` Cluster 1350 at a glance
Building block xSeries 346 xSeries 336
_` 326m
BladeCenter HS20 BladeCenter JS20
Node type Management/
compute/storage
Compute/storage Management/
compute/storage
Compute/storage Compute/storage
Packaging Rack drawer (2U) Rack drawer (1U) Rack drawer (1U) 14 per rack drawer
(7U)
14 per rack drawer
(7U)
Processor 3.0, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6,
3.8 GHz Intel Xeon
2.8, 3.0, 3.2, 3.4,
3.6, 3.8 GHz Intel
Xeon
2.6, 2.8 GHz
(single-core) AMD
Opteron;
1.8, 2.0, 2.2,
2.4 GHz (dual-core)
AMD Opteron
3.2, 3.4, 3.6,
3.8 GHz Intel Xeon
2.2 GHz PowerPC
970
L2 cache 1MB 1MB 1MB 1MB 512KB
Memory (standard) 512MB or 1GB 512MB or 1GB 1GB 512MB or 1GB 512MB
HDD bays 6 (hot-swap SCSI) 2 (fixed SATA or
hot-swap SCSI) or
4 hot-swap SFF*
SCSI
2 (fixed SATA or
hot-swap SCSI)
2 (fixed SCSI or
SFF* fixed SCSI)
2 (fixed IDE)
I/O expansion slots 4 PCI-X (64-bit)
or 2 PCI-X and
2 PCI-E
2 PCI-X (64-bit)
or 1 PCI-X and
1 PCI-E
2 PCI-X (64-bit) 1 PCI-X (64-bit) 1 PCI-X (64-bit)
Integrated storage
controllers
Ultra320 SCSI Ultra320 SCSI
or SATA
Ultra320 SCSI
or SATA
Ultra320 SCSI IDE
Integrated Ethernet
controllers
Dual Gigabit
Ethernet
Dual Gigabit
Ethernet
Dual Gigabit
Ethernet
Dual Gigabit
Ethernet
Dual Gigabit
Ethernet
System expansion
Max memory 16GB 16GB 16GB 8GB 8GB
SCSI internal storage
(minimum/maximum)
36GB/1.2TB 36GB/600GB 36GB/600GB 36GB/146GB —
IDE internal storage
(minimum/maximum)**
— — — — 40GB/80GB
SATA internal storage
(minimum/maximum)
— 80GB/500GB 80GB/160GB — —
System connectivity
for Cluster VLAN
Gigabit Ethernet,
Myrinet, InfiniBand
Gigabit Ethernet,
Myrinet, InfiniBand
Gigabit Ethernet,
Myrinet, InfiniBand
Gigabit Ethernet,
Myrinet, InfiniBand
Gigabit Ethernet,
Myrinet, InfiniBand