Matrox Supersight Assembly Instructions

Matrox Supersight
Installation and Hardware Reference
Manual no. Y11162-101-0301
October 15, 2014

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Contents
Chapter 1: Before you begin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Types of units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Documentation conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
SHBs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Operating system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Inspecting the Matrox Supersight package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Standard components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Optional installed components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Accessing your Matrox Supersight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Starting the Matrox Supersight unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Powering your Matrox Supersight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Limited automatic logins and default passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
BIOS setup utility. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Restarting individual SHBs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Turning off the Matrox Supersight unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Operating states of the Matrox Supersight unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Front panel LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
LEDs on the bracket of the SHB. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Handling precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Manual overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Chapter 2: Connecting peripherals to the
front and back panels of the unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Connecting a USB device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Connecting video output display devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Networking connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Chapter 3: Connecting devices to the backplane
and to the Matrox Supersight SHB-5520 board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Removing the chassis cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Removing the retainer guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Removing the drive-tray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Adding boards to the backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Establishing which boards can be installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Adding boards to the Matrox Supersight Solo unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Adding boards to the Matrox Supersight e2 unit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Connecting devices to the internal connectors of the SHB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Connecting additional mass storage devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Installing a mass storage device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Installing or removing RAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Connecting the chassis’ fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Chapter 4: Power management and temperature control . . . . . 65
Power management and temperature control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
ACPI technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Appendix A: Hardware glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Appendix B: Technical reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Backplane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Matrox Supersight SHB-5520 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Environmental specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Default hard disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Optional optical disk drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Fans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Pinout descriptions of external connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
USB connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Gbit Ethernet connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Analog video output connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Pinout descriptions of internal Matrox Supersight SHB-5520 connectors . . . . . . . . . 93
USB header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Serial port headers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Automatic power-up connector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Board power-supply connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Fan power-supply connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Pinout descriptions of backplane connectors and LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Chassis fan power-supply connectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
LED, system reset, and power connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Voltage rail LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Appendix C: BIOS reference for
Matrox Supersight SHB-5520 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
One SHB at a time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Maximizing performance by default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
The BIOS setup utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Entering the BIOS setup utility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
The Menu bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
The Legend window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
The Selection window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
The Item Specific Help window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Default settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Advanced menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
PCI Subsystem Settings submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Trusted Computing submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
WHEA Configuration submenu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
ACPI Settings submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
CPU Configuration submenu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Runtime Error Logging submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Spread spectrum (clockgen) configuration submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
SATA Configuration submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
USB Configuration submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Super IO Configuration submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Serial Port nConfiguration sub-submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Serial Port Console Redirection submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Console Redirection Settings sub-submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Serial Port for Out-of-band Management/Windows
Emergency Management Services Console
Redirections sub-submenu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Network Stack submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Chipset menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
North Bridge submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Tylersburg IOH Configuration sub-submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Intel VT for Directed I/O Configuration sub-submenu. . . . . . . . . . 133
IOH Thermal Sensors sub-submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
QPI Link sub-submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
DIMM Information sub-submenu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
South Bridge Configuration submenu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
USB Configuration sub-submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Server Mgmt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
System event log submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
BMC network configuration submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Error simulation submenu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
iSCSI menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Boot menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
CD/DVD ROM Drive BBS Priorities submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Hard Drive BBS Priorities submenu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Security menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145

Save and Exit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
BIOS messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Types of POST errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Types of beep codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Types of POST messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Appendix D: Listing of Matrox Supersight units . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Key feature changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Index
Regulatory Compliance
Limited Warranty

Chapter
1
Chapter 1: Before you begin
This chapter introduces you to the key features of your
Matrox Supersight unit.

10 Chapter 1: Before you begin
Overview
A Matrox Supersight unit is a high-performance computing (HPC) platform that
allows the connection of Matrox Supersight SHB-5520 system Host board(s),
GPU boards (display boards), boards with field-programmable gate arrays
(FPGAs), and frame grabber/processing boards in one chassis. All these boards are
connected to a PCIe switched fabric backplane; allowing Matrox Supersight and
its associated boards to communicate with each other on its own network.
Each Matrox Supersight SHB-5520 in the unit acts as a separate computer with
its own BIOS, operating system, memory, hard disk drives, USB ports, and
network ports. An SHB’s access to an auxiliary board (such as a GPU, FPGA, and
frame grabber/processing board) depends on the number of SHBs connected to
the backplane and on the slot in which the SHB board and the auxiliary board
are connected. Each SHB can either be connected to one or more of its own hard
disk drives.
Types of units
There are two types of Matrox Supersight units available. They differ as follows:
• Matrox Supersight e2 can have up to 4 possible SHBs.
• Matrox Supersight Solo can only have 1 SHB. In addition, there is an 8-connector
version and a 13-connector version. Other than the difference in the number of
PCIe connectors, the two variations function identically.