Dual-core, dual-processor host boards

By Control Engineering Staff March 21, 2006
SLT system host board is one of two new SHBs from Trenton Technology featuring a dual-core Intel Xeon processor LV 2.0 GHz and E7520 chipset.

Atlanta, GA —SLT and SLI system host boards from Trenton Technology feature dual-core Intel Xeon processor LV 2.0 GHz and E7520 chipset.
SLT is a dual processor, server-class system host board (SHB), the latest in the company’s line of SHB Express or PICMG 1.3 compatible products. SLI is a single dual-core processor version of the SLT. High-bandwidth/high-speed PCI Express links designed into the boards are suitable for supporting multiple PCI Express cards, devices, and bridges to PCI-X/PCI option cards on a PICMG 1.3 compatible backplane.
SLT merges two high-performance execution cores with enhanced intelligent power management features, resulting in superior computing performance per W. It supports two processors, enabling four execution cores per SHB, yielding superior system performance. Additional processing capability of the SLT is said to take about half as much system power to deliver impressive MIPS/W compared to prior generations of low-voltage Intel Xeon processors.
SLT and SLI products bring the capability of dual-core multi-processing functionality to server-class computing applications. They feature a 667 MHz front side bus. New processors have 2 MB of L2 shared cache. Chipset configuration provides dual-channel DDR2-400 memory interface capable of supporting 8 GB of memory with a maximum memory bandwidth of 6.4 GB/s.

—Control Engineering Daily News Desk
Jeanine Katzel, senior editor, jkatzel@reedbusiness.com