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Superdome Overview Presented by Guang-yao Shi What we will talk about today! What is a Superdome? What it looks like or Physical layout Definitions ! The 5 Major Components of the Superdome Cell Boards Backplane Power sub-system Utility sub-system I/O Subsystem I/O path decoding OLAR or OL* Glossary (Complete) ...Handout only... What is SuperDome? SuperDome -- 前视图 Cabinet (前视图) Cabinet (Back) Definitions! Cell - A fundamental building block of a Superdome system. Contain four processors, their memory, a CC, a SINC, optionally connected to an IO bay. CC - Coherency Controller. A part of a cell that regulates memory and other bus accesses. DNA - The Coherency Control ASIC. There is 1 per Merced bus on a cell board (thus the name) along with 4 processors. RIO - Ring I/O Adapter ASIC. Sometimes referred to as REO. One RIO can connect to each cell which has one CC. One is located on each IO BP. A RIO communicates with Elroy ASICs which communicate with IO cards via Ropes protocol. Customer usage: System Bus Adapter (SBA). SBA - System Bus Adaptor. Customer usage for RIO. Elroy - An IO ASIC. It converts ropes to a PCI bus resides on the IO backplane. Customer usage: Local Bus Adapter. LBA - Lower Bus Adaptor. Customer usage for “Elroy.” Ropes - A protocol used by Elroy ASICs to communicate with IO cards. An intermediate connection leading to a PCI bus. There are 16 per RIO. Partition - Part of a system consisting of one or more cells and running an operating system. A Superdome cabinet can have multiple partitions, each running its own OS. Note that core IO must be provided for each partition. Formerly called a “Protection Domain.” What are Partitions ? Partitions are physical entities. Partitions are defined as an integral number of cells. Initial release configuration changes will require a reboot of the changed partition only. Follow-on release will increase the dynamic-ness. Future plans include rule based systems that will automatically change partition co