Product guide

32 Board Set Description
33MAXDATA PLATINUM 90004R Server System
Processor Board
The processor board contains sockets for installing up to four Intel
®
Itanium
®
2 processors and supports
up to four power pods. It also accepts the memory boards.
The processor board and memory boards are installed horizontally in the processor/memory module.
The processor/memory module docks into the front of the chassis and mates with the midplane board
mounted vertically in the middle of the chassis.
The processor board supports the following:
• Sockets for up to four Intel
®
Itanium
®
2 processors. Two of the processor sockets are mounted
on the secondary side of the processor board.
• Provision for up to four 48 V DC-to-DC converter power pods, one for each Intel
®
Itanium
®
2
processor.
• DC-to-DC voltage converters:
– Two 48 V to 2.5 V plug-in DC-to-DC converters for DDR memory support
– One 48 V to 3.3 V plug-in DC-to-DC converter
• Embedded regulators:
– 3.3 V to 1.2 V
– 3.3 V to 1.5 V
– 3.3 V to 1.8 V
– 1.8 V to 1.3 V linear regulator
• One SNC-M component of the Intel
®
E8870 chip set.
• Three Firmware Hubs (FWH) for BIOS and system conguration utility (SCU) software.
• Two memory board connectors that support two Rambus channels each. One memory
connector is mounted on the secondary side of the processor board.
• One VHDM 360-pin connector for I/O connections.
• One debug port for use with an In-Target Probe (ITP) (debug only).
• Two I2C system management buses (SMBus).
• Serviceability LEDs.
 NOTE
The processor board also contains a switch and two LEDs on the front left corner of the primary side
of the board that are not used in the MAXDATA PLATINUM 9000-4R Server system.