topic Re: A9837A in Integrity Servers

A9837A

Jon Steele — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:55:29 GMT

Has anyone put an AB367A proc on a A9837A cell board?Also can you mix itanium and pa procs in a superdome?

Thanks
Jon

Re: A9837A

Vamsidin — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:28:03 GMT

A9837A-----> HP Superdome sx2000 Cell Board

AB367A -----> HP Processor Assembly PA-8900 2 CPU

You cannot mix different types of processors in a SuperDome cabinet,because processor frequencies must be the same within a
cabinet.Forexample,processors must all be PA-RISC8600 or IA,not a mixture
of PA-RISC8600 and PA-RISC8700.And definately not a mix of PA and IA.

Re: A9837A

Torsten. — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:34:35 GMT

"You cannot mix different types of processors in a SuperDome cabinet"

"definately not a mix of PA and IA"

This is not true.

You can mix different CPUs and even PA and IA CPUs.

But not within a single nPar.

Each npar *must* have the same CPUs, but you can have a PA-RISC and a IA64 nPar (or more, of course) in a superdome cabinet.

Re: A9837A

Phil uk — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:11:31 GMT

Jon,

Torsten is correct.

In SX1000 and SX2000 cabinets, you can have both IA and PA CPU's, but as mentioned they MUST all be of the same type in an nPAR.

Note that you may have to check firmware revisions for newer IA CPU support in your complex.

Phil

Re: A9837A

Vamsidin — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:58:23 GMT

Hi

Torson is correct... IA and PA can be mixed... My Appoligies....

Thanks for correcting me Torson..

Re: A9837A

Jon Steele — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:08:22 GMT

Thank you all for your help.

Jon