Optional expansion nodes are available to provide a cost-effective way for you to increase and customize
the capabilities of the compute node. Expansion nodes support a wide variety of industry-standard PCI
Express, network, storage, and graphics adapters. For additional information, see “” on page .
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Power throttling
By enforcing a power policy known as power-domain oversubscription, the IBM NeXtScale n1200
Enclosure can share the power load between twelve power supplies to ensure sufficient power for each
device in the IBM NeXtScale n1200 Enclosure. This policy is enforced when the initial power is applied
to the IBM NeXtScale n1200 Enclosure or when a compute node is inserted into the IBM NeXtScale
n1200 Enclosure.
The following settings for this policy are available:
– Basic power management
– Power module redundancy
– Power module redundancy with compute node throttling allowed
Reliability, availability, and serviceability features
Three of the most important features in compute node design are reliability, availability, and serviceability
(RAS). These RAS features help to ensure the integrity of the data that is stored in the compute node, the
availability of the compute node when you need it, and the ease with which you can diagnose and correct
problems.
The compute node has the following RAS features:
• Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI)
• Automatic server restart (ASR)
• Built-in diagnostics using DSA Preboot
• Built-in monitoring for temperature, voltage, and hard disk drives
• Customer support center 24 hours per day, 7 days a week
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• Customer upgrade of flash ROM-resident code and diagnostics
• Customer-upgradeable Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) code and diagnostics
• ECC protected DDR3 DIMMs
• ECC protection on the L2 cache
• Error codes and messages
• Integrated management module II (IMM2)
• Light path diagnostics
• Memory parity testing
• Microprocessor built-in self-test (BIST) during power-on self-test (POST)
• Microprocessor serial number access
• Processor presence detection
• ROM-resident diagnostics
• System-error logging
• Vital product data (VPD) on memory
• Wake on LAN capability
• Wake on PCI (PME) capability
Major components of the compute node
Use this information to locate the major components on the compute node.
The following illustration shows the major components of the compute node.
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