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nPartition System Overviews

Superdome Server Models

HP System Partitions Guide: Administration for nPartitions, rev 5.1

Superdome Server Models

HP Superdome servers scale up to 16 cells and include complete support

for hard partitions (nPartitions). You can conﬁgure a single nPartition

using some or all cells, or can conﬁgure multiple nPartitions within the

same Superdome server complex (up to one nPartition for each cell that

has core I/O attached).

You can add up to two Superdome I/O expansion cabinets to the

Superdome 32-way and 64-way models. Each I/O expansion cabinet has

up to six additional 12-slot I/O chassis.

The three Superdome models include: HP Superdome 16-Way (SD16000)

Server, HP Superdome 32-Way (SD32000) Server, and HP Superdome

64-Way (SD64000) Server.

Details on these models are given in the following sections.

Also see nPartition System Hardware Details on page 47 for more

information about HP Superdome hardware features.

HP Superdome 16-Way (SD16000) Server

The HP Superdome 16-way server is a single-cabinet server that has

from two to four cells, each with four HP PA-RISC processors and up to

32 DIMMs.

Figure 1-4 on page 41 shows an overview of the Superdome 16-way

server hardware architecture.

The Superdome 16-way server can have up to 16 processors, 128 DIMMs,

and up to four 12-slot PCI I/O chassis.

The model string for Superdome 16-way servers is 9000/800/SD16000.