Re: blade servers?

[linux-os (Dick Johnson)]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Larry McVoy wrote:

> I figured that people here would know.  If you were looking for blade
> servers and you were more interested in cost and heat generation than the
> most performance, what would you buy?  We're looking for 20 x86 cpus.
> They have to beat ASUS terminators (nice little boxes, if you haven't
> checked them out you should, about $100 + cpu + mem + disk and they are
> quiet and run on ~100watt power supplies so they don't generate a lot
> of heat).
>
> So far, the stuff at www.rackmount.com looks pretty good but they are
> (like everyone else so far as I can tell) focussed on performance.
> For all of the Unix like platforms, we'd be happy with 2Ghz Athlons (don't
> need opterons) with 256MB.  It's true that for the windows platforms we
> like 2GB because we use 1GB as a ram disk to get reasonable performance
> out of @#!! Windows.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --lm

Check out http://www.siliconmechanics.com/c292/blage-server.php.
We evaluated one (so far). Prices are not too bad, plus you
can get 5 different blades. The full chassis, with 14 blades,
needs good ventilation -- lots of power -- lots of heat!


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.15.4 on an i686 machine (5589.42 BogoMips).
Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction, book release in April.
_


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