IBM IntelliStation POWER 285, Technical Overview And Introduction

Page 1: ...Station POWER 285 Technical Overview and Introduction Scott Vetter Carlo Costantini Gregor Linzmeier Designed for high end mechanical computer aided design Uses leading edge IBM POWER5 processor techn...

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Page 3: ...International Technical Support Organization IBM IntelliStation POWER 285 Technical Overview and Introduction September 2006...

Page 4: ...ghts Use duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp Second Edition September 2006 This edition applies to IBM IntelliStation POWER 285 and IBM AIX 5L Version 5 3 p...

Page 5: ...e POWER5 processor 10 2 2 Processor and cache 11 2 3 Memory subsystem 13 2 3 1 Memory placement rules 13 2 3 2 Memory restrictions 14 2 3 3 Memory throughput 14 2 4 Internal I O subsystem 15 2 4 1 PCI...

Page 6: ...s 37 4 1 64 bit CATIA 38 4 1 1 Checking the AIX 5L kernel mode 39 4 1 2 Changing from a 32 bit to a 64 bit kernel 39 4 2 Checking and changing the SMT setting 39 4 3 Network Installation Management 41...

Page 7: ...in this publication at any time without notice Any references in this information to non IBM Web sites are provided for convenience only and do not in any manner serve as an endorsement of those Web...

Page 8: ...tem p Wake on LAN The following terms are trademarks of other companies Power Management and all Java based trademarks are trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc in the United States other countries or bo...

Page 9: ...king at the IBM International Technical Support Organization Austin Center Scott Vetter is a Certified IT Specialist for IBM and has over 21 years of experience with IBM He currently works in the Unit...

Page 10: ...ts Your efforts will help increase product acceptance and customer satisfaction As a bonus you ll develop a network of contacts in IBM development labs and increase your productivity and marketability...

Page 11: ...5 is available in a 1 core or 2 core configuration using state of the art 64 bit copper based POWER5 microprocessors running at 1 9 or 2 1GHz with 36 MB of L3 cache The base 1 GB of main memory can be...

Page 12: ...tion POWER 285 Description Range Operating temperature 5 to 35 Celsius 41 to 95 Farenheit Relative humidity 8 to 80 Operating voltage 100 to 127 or 200 to 240 V AC auto ranging Operating frequency 50...

Page 13: ...aged in a dual core module DCM and an integrated L3 cache soldered directly to the system board The minimum IntelliStation POWER 285 configuration must include a processor a processor entitlement memo...

Page 14: ...1 4 1 Processor features The IntelliStation POWER 285 is available in a 1 core or 2 core configurations using state of the art 64 bit copper based POWER5 microprocessors running at 1 9 GHz or 2 1 GHz...

Page 15: ...lightweight USB V2 attached diskette drive takes its power requirements from the USB port A USB cable is provided The drive can be attached to the integrated USB ports or to a USB adapter FC 2738 A ma...

Page 16: ...ion control for increased productivity better design comprehension and early detection of design errors By applying fingertip control to push pull and twist the ball you manipulate the image on the sc...

Page 17: ...s 73 4 GB 10k disk drive DVD ROM GXT4500P graphics accelerator T119 Flat Panel Monitor Power supply 700 watt Media backplane 4 pack disk drive enclosure Quiet touch keyboard USB 3 button optical mouse...

Page 18: ...Flat Panel Monitor Power supply 700 watt Media backplane 4 pack disk drive enclosure Quiet touch keyboard USB 3 button optical mouse Processor entitlement Zero priced express activations Express offe...

Page 19: ...s PCI X slot 2 32 bit 66 MHz 3 3 volts PCI X slot 3 32 bit 66 MHz 3 3 volts PCI X slot 4 64 bit 266 MHz 3 3 volts PCI X slot 5 64 bit 133 MHz 3 3 volts Short Long Long Short Short PCI X to PCI X bridg...

Page 20: ...red with 389 mm The POWER5 processor is 37 smaller than the POWER5 processor It consumes less power and requires less sophisticated cooling Thus you can use the POWER5 processor in servers where previ...

Page 21: ...controller comes ready to support for DDR 2 667 MHz DIMMs in the future Enhanced redundancy in L1 cache L2 cache and L3 directory Independent control of the L2 cache and the L3 directory for redundan...

Page 22: ...mmand uses the performance monitor cycle counter and the processor real time clock to measure the actual processor clock speed in MHz The output in Example 2 2 is from a 2 core IntelliStation POWER 28...

Page 23: ...emory is installed in the following order The first pair is installed in J0A and J2A The second pair is installed in J0C and J2C The third pair is installed in J0B and J2B The fourth pair is installed...

Page 24: ...rface II bus to the processor memory controller The bus allows double reads or writes per clock cycle Because the bus operates at 1066 MHz the peak processor to memory throughput for read is 8 x 2 x 1...

Page 25: ...3 MHz 64 bit PCI X slots Two hot swap 66 MHz 32 bit PCI X slots One hot swap DDR 266 MHz 64 bit PCI X slot The PCI X slots in the IntelliStation POWER 285 system support hot plug and extended error ha...

Page 26: ...monitors The adapter requires one short 32 bit or 64 bit PCI X slot Figure 2 6 on page 17 shows the adapter card which has the following features and specifications Hardware description 128 bit graph...

Page 27: ...omotive and aerospace Petroleum exploration and production Scientific visualization Other technical design and visualization This adapter has the following base features shown in Figure 2 7 on page 18...

Page 28: ...g graphics applications in these areas Mechanical Computer Aided Design MCAD and Engineering MCAE for automotive and aerospace Petroleum exploration and production Scientific visualization LifeScience...

Page 29: ...re 2 8 The GXT6500P graphics accelerator 2 4 4 Flat panel monitors The p5 285 deskside server when combined with a graphics accelerator can be equipped with a flat panel monitor Table 2 3 on page 19 l...

Page 30: ...in the IntelliStation POWER 285 system Table 2 4 Orderable SCSI adapters 2 4 7 iSCSI iSCSI is an open standards based approach by which SCSI information is encapsulated using the TCP IP protocol to al...

Page 31: ...d Linux acts as a software iSCSI initiator and allows access to iSCSI target storage devices using standard Gigabit Ethernet network adapters To ensure the best performance enable the TCP Large Send T...

Page 32: ...elliStation POWER 285 system supports one 4 pack disk drive using a backplane that is designed for hot pluggable disk drives The disk drive backplane docks directly to the system board The virtual SCS...

Page 33: ...anager when using disk hot swap capabilities For more information see the IBM Redbook Problem Solving and Troubleshooting in AIX 5L SG24 5496 1993 Integrated Drive Electronics IDE 4 7 GB Slimline DVD...

Page 34: ...ments 2 1 GHz POWER5 processors AIX 5L for POWER V5 3 with 5300 04 Technology Level APAR IY77273 or later AIX 5L for POWER V5 2 with 5200 08 Technology Level APAR IY77270 or later 1 9 GHz POWER5 proce...

Page 35: ...ion processor and contains 32 bit general purpose registers The flash ROM contains a compressed image of a software load Serviceprocessor block diagram Base FSP B D S 1 wire R ackIndC onn Flash ROM 40...

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Page 37: ...lp lower the total cost of ownership TCO IBM reliability availability and service RAS technology allow you to improve your TCO architecture by reducing unplanned down time This chapter provides more d...

Page 38: ...ections describe the concepts that form the basis of leadership RAS features of IBM IntelliStation POWER 285 workstation in more detail 3 1 1 Fault avoidance IBM IntelliStation POWER 285 workstations...

Page 39: ...cation on page 31 3 1 3 Permanent monitoring The service processor SP included in the IntelliStation POWER 285 provides a way to monitor the system even when the main processor is inoperable Mutual su...

Page 40: ...y Single bit error correction using ECC without reaching error thresholds for main L2 and L3 cache memory L3 cache line deletes extended from 2 to 10 for additional self healing ECC extended to inter...

Page 41: ...de Processor L3 cache line delete Partial L2 cache deallocation PCI X bus and slots For dynamic processor deallocation the service processor performs a predictive failure analysis based on any recover...

Page 42: ...in the case of a permanent parity error in the PCI bus EEH enabled adapters respond to a special data packet generated from the affected PCI slot hardware by calling system firmware which examines th...

Page 43: ...oling fans Power subsystems PCI X adapter cards 3 2 Manageability The functions and tools provided for IBM IntelliStation POWER 285 workstations to ease management are described in the next sections 3...

Page 44: ...s an enhanced version of Service Director with a graphical user interface GUI Key tasks you can accomplish using Service Agent for the IBM IntelliStation POWER 285 workstation IBM System p5 pSeries an...

Page 45: ...rvice Agent only sends outbound transmissions and does not allow any inbound connection attempts Only hardware machine configuration machine status or error information is transmitted Service Agent do...

Page 46: ...you to manage and install microcode updates on systems and associated I O adapters For more information see the IBM microcode update Web site http www14 software ibm com webapp set2 firmware gjsn IBM...

Page 47: ...ps This chapter contains an introduction to CATIA and several administration aids related to the IBM IntelliStation POWER 285 workstation Test and modify the scripts before placing them into productio...

Page 48: ...ing on the investments that clients have already made on IBM platforms running AIX 5L they can instantly benefit from the advanced capabilities of the latest ENOVIA DMU and CATIA V5 software to help t...

Page 49: ...command 5 Enter the ln fs usr lib boot unix_64 unix command 6 Enter the bosboot ad dev ipldevice command 7 Enter the sync sync sync commands 8 Enter the shutdown Fr command to reboot the 64 bit kerne...

Page 50: ...imultaneous multithreading threads per physical or virtual processor SMT Bound Indicator that the simultaneous multithreading threads are bound on the same physical or virtual processor To enable simu...

Page 51: ...at a convenient time For example if a client is unavailable at the time of the installation you can initiate an installation when it is back online or if there is less traffic on your network at a ce...

Page 52: ...function Check_Disks for i in lsdev C grep hdi do echo i grep hdi awk print 1 done Check single or multi processor if bootinfo z gt 0 then MULTI mp else MULTI up fi Check system information HOSTNAME h...

Page 53: ...REEN GRAPHIC TD BGCOLOR WHITE OUTFILEH else echo TD NOWRAP GRAPHIC TD OUTFILEH fi echo TD NOWRAP DISKS TD TR OUTFILEH Create a simple ascii list echo HOSTNAME c OUTFILEL echo MODEL c OUTFILEL echo MUL...

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Page 55: ...n every Friday at 6 00 p m Example 4 5 Crontab entry for power off and on Crontab entry for automatic power off 0 18 5 usr local script poffpon pl 4 5 Wake on LAN Introduced with the POWER5 technology...

Page 56: ...or Linux Applications is to provide ready to run installable open software tools and facilitate recompilation of open source software without modifications on AIX 5L systems You can order the AIX Tool...

Page 57: ...ment the uname m command delivers the correct processor ID See Table 4 1 Table 4 1 Obtaining the correct processor ID When using partitionable systems or systems with nonhexadecimal serial numbers the...

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Page 59: ...SU with customer installable features CIF and customer replaceable units CRU The IntelliStation POWER 285 is considered CSU Authorized service representative set up upgraded and maintained A number of...

Page 60: ...to help perform a variety of tasks including Preparing a site to accommodate the hardware for IBM systems Installing the server console features and options and other hardware Installing and using a H...

Page 61: ...ulder ibm com infocenter eserver v1r3s index jsp On the HMC Click Information Center and Setup Wizard Launch the Information Center On CD ROM Shipped with the hardware English SK3T 8159 Also available...

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Page 66: ...paper is a comprehensive guide covering the IBM IntelliStation POWER 285 workstation We introduce major hardware offerings and discuss their prominent functions Professionals wanting to acquire a bett...