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1:

Define the term chipset.

2:

What are the two main performance bottlenecks in the original PC chipset?

3:

What was the main benefit of the dual independent bus architecture? Where was the bottleneck with this architecture?

4:

What server subsystem was the point of contention with bus mastering technology?

5:

What were the three main functions of the memory and I/O (MIOC) technology?

6:

Which system architecture first provided peripherals with independent access to processors and memory?

7:

Which architecture provided dual-peer PCI buses and employed dual memory controllers that processed memory requests in parallel?

8:

What innovation enabled each of the five main ports to transfer data at high speed to each of the other ports, allowing concurrent read/writes between processors, memory, and I/O?

9:

What chipset uses a two-port (bus) memory design with 1.6GB/s memory bandwidth (2 x 800MB/s), allowing simultaneous access to memory on both ports?

10:

What three advantages does the F8 chipset have over the NUMA architecture?

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    HP ProLiant Servers AIS. Official Study Guide and Desk Reference
    HP ProLiant Servers AIS: Official Study Guide and Desk Reference
    ISBN: 0131467174
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2004
    Pages: 278

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