• Slimline chassis with 300W TFX power supply
• A single Blackbird™ uATX mainboard
• One 4-core IBM POWER9 v2 CPU
• 4 cores per package
• SMT4 capable
• POWER IOMMU
• Hardware virtualization extensions
• 90W TDP
• One 2U POWER9 heatsink assembly
• 8GB DDR4 ECC registered memory
• 2 front panel USB 3.0 ports
• 128GB Samsung internal NVMe storage
• Recovery DVD

The Blackbird™ mainboard is an affordable, owner-controllable, desktop and entry server level mainboard. Built around the IBM POWER9 processor, and leveraging Linux and OpenPOWER™ technology, Blackbird™ allows you to secure your data without sacrificing performance. Designed with a fully owner-controlled CPU domain, you can audit and modify any portion of the open source firmware on the Blackbird™ mainboard, all the way down to the CPU microcode. This is an unprecedented level of access for any modern desktop-class machine, and one that is increasingly needed to assure safety and compliance with new regulations, such as the EU's GDPR.

An owner-controlled, CPU-based secure boot mode also is available at any time. When secure boot is properly configured, and if the mainboard is located in a physically secure environment (e.g., a secure computing room or locked desktop case), you can be assured that only your pre-approved and pre-audited firmware, kernel, and user space components are executing on a Blackbird™ system.

Specifications

• 1 POWER9-compatible Sforza CPU socket
• Supports up to an 8-core 160W TDP processor at full speed
• Higher core count CPUs are not officially supported
• Micro ATX form factor
• 2 DDR4 ECC registered RAM slots
• Individual 128GB DDR4 DIMM support
• Supports up to 256GB total main system memory
• 1 PCIe 4.0 x16 slot
• 1 PCIe 4.0 x8 slot
• 2 Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet ports
• 1 Combined BMC / host Gigabit Ethernet port
• 1 Marvell SATA controller
• 4 6 Gb/s SATA ports
• 4 USB 3.0 ports
• 2 external
• 2 on internal header
• 1 USB 2.0 port
• 1 external RS-232 port
• 1 internal RS-232 port header
• 1 ASpeed BMC with OpenBMC
• 1 HDMI Full HD (2D) video port
• 1 CMedia 5.1 channel audio controller
• External analog and S/PDIF output
• S/PDIF over HDMI supported

Secure and control your desktop computing today with a modern, energy efficient Blackbird™ system!

Resources

• Firmware Source
• Hardware Compatibility List

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