Performance, density, power efficiency, easy manageability — all the boring buzzwords we often hear from the server vendors promoting their new dense servers and blade servers. Not “dense” as in dumb, neither razor-sharp like knife blades, just in case you’ve wandered in from the dark. If you try to put a bunch of servers together, whether in an enterprise farm or a scientific compute clusters, you’d know that physically plumbing it all up — all the racking, fitting, cabling across multiple connections, linking to a common console, and then powering it up all at once successfully — is not a layman’s job. In fact, in a large cluster, you may not even want to power up things all at once as suddenly pulling several hundred kilowatts power out of the grid could be, umm, risky.
Intel Delivers Server Farm in a Box
February 28, 2008