Dual Cell Based Blade 2

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Cell BE Processor

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The Dual Cell-Based Blade 2 (DCBB2) is a second-generation product based on the Cell Broadband Engine™ (BE) processor and the open BladeCenter® standard for managed server chassis. Fourteen single-slot DCBB2 units fit in a 9U BladeCenter® H chassis, providing a processing density of greater than 1 TFLOPS per cubic foot.

The DCBB2 solution offers Mercury customers the advantages of the Cell BE processor in a package designed for high-performance environments. The DCBB2 significantly improves performance for graphic-intensive workloads and computationally intensive high-performance computing (HPC) applications in medical imaging, industrial inspection, aerospace and defense, seismic processing, telecommunications, and other industries. Performance scales dramatically when the application is distributed across multiple blades in a cluster or across the network.

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	Features		Benefits		Specifications

Features

Two Cell BE processors, each at 3.2 GHz
410 GFLOPS on the blade
Two companion chips provide up to 10 GB of memory
1 GB of XDR DRAM per Cell BE processor
Optional MultiCore Plus SDK (software development kit)

Specifications

Dual Cell BE Processors
PPE core: IBM® 64-bit Power Architecture™
   L1 cache size: 32 KB instruction; 32 KB data
   L2 cache size: 512 KB
SPEs: 8
   Local store: 256 KB
   Registers: 128 x 128 bits wide
EIB: 205 GB/s sustained aggregate bandwidth
Processor internal clock speed: 3.2 GHz
Processor-to-XDR-memory bandwidth: 25.6 GB/s
Processor-to-processor coherent interface
   20 GB/s in each direction

Memory
XDR Memory (each processor)
   1 GB 3.2-GHz XDR DRAM, 2 channels per processor
DDR2 memory (each processor)
   1 or 2 GB 667-MHz DDR2 organized as
   2 VLP DIMMs per processor, 1 channel per DIMM
ECC support
   Single-bit correct; double-bit detect on XDR and DDR2
Flash: 32 MB
NVRAM: 1 MB

Storage
Optional serial attached SCSI controller: 300 MB/s

I/O Subsystems
Dual Gigabit Ethernet port connected to the midplane
Serial port: Via midplane to rear of chassis
Serial over LAN: Via BladeCenter Advanced Management Module

Expansion Option
High-speed daughtercard
InfiniBand 4X HCA expansion card
Additional expansion options are being qualified. Contact your Mercury sales representative for details.

System Management
System management processor: Baseboard management controller

MultiCore Plus™ SDK Software (Optional)
(32/64-bit application support)
MCF (MultiCore Framework): PPE/SPE
TATL™ (Trace Analysis Tool and Library): PPE/SPE
SAL (Scientific Algorithm Library): PPE/SPE
PixL™ (Image Processing Algorithm Library): PPE
MCPDIAG (MultiCore Plus Diagnostics): PPE/SPE
SPEAD-K (SPE Assembly Development Kit): SPE
Linux® operating system

Size
Length: 446 mm (17.6 in)
Width: 245 mm (9.7 in)
Height: 29 mm (1.14 in)
The DCBB2 is a single-width blade server in a BladeCenter H 9U chassis.

Environmental
Ambient temperature: 5°C to 35°C
Humidity: 5-95% non-condensing
Altitude
3000 ft at 35°C
7000 ft at 32°C

Power
Total power: 380W
Conforms to BladeCenter Open Specifications

Compliance
European Directive 2002/95/EC
(RoHS 5/6 Server Exemption Directive)