Bensley Platform -- Major Components of Bensley Platform

Memory

• Fully Buffered DIMM (FB-DIMM) technology, new memories interconnect solution for server platforms.
• FB-DIMM provides significant capacity and bandwidth improvements over existing DDR, DDR2 based systems.
• FB-DIMM also provides enhanced RAS capabilities, a key requirement for server platforms..
• FB-DIMM (Fully Buffered DIMM) is a memory module technology targeted to servers developed recently created in order to increase the memory speed and the maximum memory capacity of a server (refer Fig 2) .
• The main difference between FB-DIMM modules and regular DIMM modules is that on FB-DIMM the communication between the memory controller (chipset) and the module is serial, in the same way that occurs with PCI Express, while on standard DIMM modules this communication is parallel.