Specifications

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4 IBM Power System S822 Technical Overview and Introduction
Figure 1-2 shows the rear view of a Power S822 system.
Figure 1-2 Rear view of a Power S822 system
1.4 System features
The system chassis contains one or two processor modules. Each POWER8 processor
module is either 6-core, or 10-core and has a 64-bit architecture, up to 512 KB of L2 cache
per core, and up to 8 MB of L3 cache per core.
1.4.1 Power S822 system features
This summary describes the standard features of the Power S822:
򐂰 Rack-mount (2U) chassis
򐂰 Single or dual processor module:
– 6-core 3.89 GHz processor module
– 10-core 3.42 GHz processor module
򐂰 Up to 1024 GB of 1600 MHz DDR3 ECC memory
򐂰 Choice of two storage features:
– Choice one:
• Twelve SFF bays, one DVD bay, one integrated SAS controller without cache, and
JBOD RAID 0, 5, 6, or 10
• Optionally, split the twelve SFF-3 bays and add a second integrated SAS controller
without cache.
– Choice two:
• Eight SFF-3 bays, one DVD bay, a pair of integrated SAS controllers with cache,
RAID 0, 5, 6, 10, 5T2, 6T2, and 10T2.
• A 6-bay, 1.8-inch SSD cage with dual IOA.
• Optionally, attach an EXP24S SAS HDD/SSD expansion drawer to the dual IOA.
򐂰 Hot swap PCIe Gen3 LP slots
– Nine slots with two processor DCMs: four x16 slots and five x8 slots
– Six slots with one processor DCM: two x16 slots and four x8 slots