HP ML530 ProLiant ML530 High-Performance Technologies - Page 2

ProLiant ML530 High-Performance Technologies abstract introduction The ProLiant ML530 Generation 2 (G2) server features new technologies that improve on the performance, scalability, fault tolerance, and manageability of the first generation ProLiant ML530 server. A discussion of all these technology improvements is beyond the scope of this document. This paper focuses on the synergy of the server's highperformance technologies that provide the balanced system architecture of this midrange departmental server. The ProLiant ML530 G2 server (Figure 1) is a high-performance 2-way server with optimized system resources for intensive data center and remote office environments. The server is designed with a balanced system architecture (2.8-GHz Intel® Xeon™ processors, Double Data Rate (DDR) SDRAM, and PCI-X technology) to maximize application performance and user workload. The system architecture is balanced by an enterprise-class chipset (the ServerWorks Grand Champion HE) that supports up to 16 gigabytes (GB) of memory and seven 64-bit, 100-MHz PCI-X slots. The performance and scalability of the ProLiant ML530 G2 server make it a flexible solution for applications such as: • server consolidation • remote site or branch office server • high-performance, low-cost database engine • mail and messaging • dedicated application server figure 1. ProLiant ML530 dual-processor server First, this paper describes the overall system architecture of the ProLiant ML530 G2 server. Then it describes the high performance features of the individual processor, memory, and input/output (I/O) subsystems in more detail. 2