S2600BP Motherboard Description

Intel® S2600BP motherboard description.

The Intel® S2600BP (Buchanan Pass) motherboard is designed to support the Intel Xeon® Scalable processor family, previously codenamed “Skylake" and "Cascade Lake." Previous generation Xeon processors are not supported.

Figure: Intel® S2600BP Motherboard
Table 1. Intel® S2600BP Motherboard Specifications
FeatureDescription
Processor SupportSupport for two Intel Xeon Scalable processors:
  • Two LGA 3647, (Socket-P0) processor sockets
  • Maximum thermal design power (TDP) of 165W
  • 40 lanes of Integrated PCIe 3.0 low-latency I/O
Memory
  • 16 DIMM slots in total across six memory channels
  • Support for DDR4 DIMMs only. DDR3 DIMMs are not supported
  • Registered DDR4 (RDIMM), Load Reduced DDR4 (LRDIMM)
  • Memory DDR4 data transfer rates of 1600/1866/2133/2400/2666/2933 MT/s
  • Up to two DIMM slots per channel
  • 4 TB (maximum)
ChipsetIntel 621 Platform Controller Hub (PCH)
External I/O Connections
  • One dedicated management port. RJ45, 100Mb/1Gb/10Gb, for remote server management (Embedded dedicated NIC module from BMC)
  • Stacked dual port USB 3.0 (port 0/1) connector
  • Two RJ-45 10GbE network interface controller (NIC) ports
Internal I/O Connectors
  • Bridge slot to extend board I/O
  • One 1x12 internal Video header
  • One 1x4 IPMB header
  • One internal USB 2.0 connector
  • One 1x12 pin control panel header
  • One DH-10 serial Port connector
  • One 2x4 pin header for Intel® RMM4 Lite
  • One 1x4 pin header for Storage Upgrade Key
  • Two 2x12 pin header for Fabric Sideband CPU1/CPU2
PCIe SupportPCIe 3.0 (2.5, 5, 8 GT/s)
Power Connections
  • Two sets of 2x3 pin connectors (main power 1/2)
  • One backup power 1x8 connector
System Fan Support
  • One 2x7 pin fan control connector
  • Three 1x8 pin system fan connectors
Riser Card Support
  • One bridge board slot for board I/O expansion
  • Riser Slot 1 (Rear Right Side)
  • VGA Bracket is installed on Riser slot 1 as a standard
  • Riser Slot 2 (Rear Left Side) providing a x24 PCIe 3.0 lanes: CPU1
  • Riser Slot 3 (Front Left Side) providing a x24 PCIe 3.0 lanes: CPU2
  • Riser Slot 4 (Middle Left Side) providing a x16 PCIe 3.0 lanes: CPU2
Video
  • Integrated on ASPEED AST2500 BMC
  • 16MB of DDR4 video memory (512 total for BMC)
Onboard Storage Controllers and Options
  • One M.2 SATA/PCIe connector (42 mm drive support only)
  • Four SATA 6Gbps ports via Mini-SAS HD (SFF-8643) connector

Fabric

Dual port Intel Omni-Path fabric via processor

or

Single port Omni-Path fabric via x16 Gen 3 PCIe adapter

Server Management
  • Onboard ASPEED AST2500 BMC controller
  • Support for optional Intel Remote Management Module 4 Lite (RMM4)
  • Intel Light-Guided Diagnostics on field replaceable units
  • Support for Intel System Management Software
  • Support for Intel Intelligent Power Node Manager (Require PMBus compliant power supply)
RAID Support
  • Intel Rapid Storage RAID Technology (RSTe) 5.0
  • Intel Embedded Server RAID Technology 2 (ESRT2) with optional Intel RAID C600 Upgrade Key to enable SATA RAID 5