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Chapter 4 Domain Configuration 49
FIGURE 4-1 A Physical System Board in Uni-XSB Mode on an M4000 Midrange Server
FIGURE 4-2 A Physical System Board in Uni-XSB Mode on a High-End Server
Quad-XSB
A PSB logically divided and configured into four XSBs
Each of the four XSBs contains one-quarter of the total board resources: 1 CPU,
8 DIMMs, and I/O. On a midrange server, only two XSBs have I/O.
CPU
Uni-XSB mode
(1 physical system board with
4 CPUs, 32 DIMMs, and I/O)
I/O device
I/O device
Memory - 8 DIMMs
Memory - 8 DIMMs
Memory - 8 DIMMs
Memory - 8 DIMMs
CPU
CPU
CPU
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CPU
Uni-XSB mode
(1 physical system board with
4 CPUs, 32 DIMMs, and I/O)
I/O device
I/O device
I/O device
I/O device
CPU
CPU
CPU
Memory - 8 DIMMs
Memory - 8 DIMMs
Memory - 8 DIMMs
Memory - 8 DIMMs
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