Product guide

NeXtScale nx360 M4 7
Standard specifications
The following table lists the standard specifications of the NeXtScale nx360 M4 compute node and
NeXtScale n1200 enclosure.
Table 1. Standard specifications (part 1)
Components Specification
Form factor Standard server: Half-wide, 1U compute node.
With optional Native Expansion Tray: Half-wide 2U compute node.
Supported
chassis
NeXtScale n1200 enclosure, 6U high; up to 12 compute nodes per chassis.
Processor Two Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 V2 series processors; QuickPath Interconnect (QPI) links
speed up to 8.0 GTps. Hyper-Threading Technology and Turbo Boost Technology. Intel C602J
(Patsburg-J) chipset.
4-core processors up to 3.5 GHz and 15 MB L3 cache
6-core processors up to 3.5 GHz and 25 MB L3 cache
8-core processors up to 3.3 GHz and 25 MB L3 cache
10-core processors up to 3.0 GHz and 25 MB L3 cache
12-core processors up to 2.7 GHz and 30 MB L3 cache
Memory Up to 8 DIMM sockets (4 DIMMs per processor) supporting DDR3 DIMMs up to 1866 MHz
memory speeds. RDIMMs, UDIMMs and LRDIMMs supported. Four memory channels per
processor (one DIMM per channel).
Memory
maximums
Up to 256 GB with 8x 32 GB LRDIMMs and two processors.
Memory
protection
ECC, memory mirroring, and memory sparing.
Disk drive bays Inside the nx360 M4: One 3.5-inch simple-swap SATA or two 2.5-inch simple swap SAS/SATA
HDDs or SSDs, or four 1.8-inch simple-swap SSDs. Not front accessible. Adding the NeXtScale
Storage Native Expansion Tray adds 7 more 3.5-inch simple-swap drive bays.
Maximum
internal storage
With the Storage Native Expansion Tray: 32 TB using 8x 4TB 3.5-inch drives.
Without the Storage Native Expansion Tray: 4.0 TB using 1x 4TB 3.5-inch drive.
RAID support On some models: ServeRAID C100 6Gb SATA controller supporting RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID
10. Implemented in the Intel C600 chipset. Optional hardware RAID with supported 6Gbps RAID
controllers.
Optical drive
bays
No internal bays; use an external USB drive. See
http://support.lenovo.com/en/documents/pd011281 for options.
Tape drive bays No internal bays. Use an external USB drive.
Network
interfaces
Two Gigabit Ethernet ports using onboard Intel I350 Gb Ethernet controller. Optionally, two
InfiniBand ports or two 10 GbE ports through a mezzanine card (which does not occupy the
available PCIe slot).
PCI Expansion
slots
nx360 M4 without PCIe Native Expansion Tray:
One PCIe 3.0 x8 mezzanine card slot
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One PCIe 3.0 x16 full-height half-length slot
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nx360 M4 with PCIe Native Expansion Tray:
One PCIe 3.0 x8 mezzanine card slot
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One PCIe 3.0 x8 full-height half-length slot
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Two PCIe 3.0 x16 full-height full-length double-width slots
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