CPU box
2.1 CPU box
Depending on the configuration, the CPU box contains one or two system boards.
Each system board contains a processor chip with the following features:
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depending on the model, up to eight CPU cores with a joint cache
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two IOPs (I/O processors)
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one Mac (Memory Access Controller)
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The processor chip is connected directly to the memory of the system board.
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Processors on different system boards communicate over an Inter Connect Interface.
The CPU box, together with AROMA-P, occupies six height units (HUs) in the rack.
2.2 Channel box (CHE box)
Depending on the configuration level, up to eight channel boxes (#0 through #7) and up to
126 FC channels are possible in an SE700. In the basic configuration, the SU700 has two
channel boxes, channel box #0 and channel box #4.
Up to eight channel modules, each with two FC channels (8 Gbps), can be integrated into
a channel box. Only in the case of the first channel box is the first slot already occupied on
the system side.
A channel box occupies two height units (HUs) in the rack.
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