Linux in Dallas at the SEG

[Bill Campbell]

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
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