On Sat, Nov 01, 2003, Kurt Wall wrote: >Quoth Alan Jackson: > >[...] > >> the AMD Opteron 64 bit for clusters. IBM had a rather nice blade >> system which could take whatever you want, AMD, Intel, or other. And >> I saw a Sun system perform much like an SGI. So things are continuing to >> progress. > >Stupid question: What exactly is a "blade" server?
A server that plugs into a 3u or 4u rack chassis (perhaps even 2u) allowing very high numbers of servers in a rack. The term ``blade'' has been pretty common with routers and modem racks where it refers to devices that plug into a large chassis, sharing common power supplies and backplanes. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``The Income Tax has made more Liars out of American people than Golf has.'' Will Rogers _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
