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areas where noisy power transmission is present, you may choose to install a line

lter to shield the computer from noise. It is recommended that you also install a

power surge protector to help avoid problems caused by power surges.

1-7 Advanced Power Management

The new advanced power management features supported by this motherboard

include IPNM and ME. Please note that you will need to do following to use these

two new features:

•Use a power supply that supports PMBus 1.1 or 1.2.

•Install the NMView software in your system. NMView is optional and can be

purchased from Supermicro.

Intel

Intelligent Power Node Manager (IPNM)

The Intel

Intelligent Power Node Manager (IPNM) provides your system with

real-time thermal control and power management for maximum energy efciency.

Although IPNM is supported by the BMC (Baseboard Management Controller),

your system must also have IPNM-compatible Management Engine (ME) rmware

installed in your system for IPNM support.

Note: Support for IPNM Specication Version 1.5 or Vision 2.0 depends

on the power supply used in the system.

Management Engine (ME)

The Management Engine, which is an ARC controller embedded in the PCH, pro-

vides Server Platform Services (SPS) to your system. The services provided by

SPS are different from those provided by the ME on client platforms.

1-8 Introduction to the IPMI Controller

The Nuvoton WPCM450R Controller, a Baseboard Management Controller (BMC),

supports 2D/VGA-compatible graphic cores with PCI interface, creating multi-media

virtualization via Keyboard/Video/Mouse Redirection (KVMR). The WPCM450R

controller is ideal for remote system management.

The WPCM450R controller interfaces with the host system via PCI connections

to communicate with the graphics cores. It supports USB 2.0 and 1.1 for remote

keyboard/mouse/virtual media emulation. It also provides LPC interface support to

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