Less power means less heat, so RLX can cram 336 blade servers into a standard rack.
These include their Syncro products designed for an SMB clustered DAS application but also used to replace boot disks in blade servers with a centralized Syncro MX boot appliance that can support 24-48 servers.
As a result, customers can integrate the management of zEnterprise System resources as a single system and extend mainframe qualities, such as governance and manageability, to workloads running on select IBM POWER7 and System x blade servers.
ENGADGET: IBM's zEnterprise architecture makes mainframes cool again, also efficient (video)
That makes it possible to see which blade servers are available for use, automatically provision them to an application, and add or remove blades as needed, without going through the operating system or any other intermediary software.
The Stanford university team, which won DARPA's last 132-mile robotic race through the Mojave Desert event in 2005, has outfitted its more chic Volkswagon Passat with eight laser sensors and two of Intel's quad-core blade servers, dwarfing the Cybervan's processing power.
On the Blade Network web site (note the .net address or you wind up on a site about hand-crafted knives) the company illustrates a rack with two Intel Xeon quad core blade servers with other components for high speed messaging and switches.
The Stanford university team, which won DARPA's last 132-mile robotic race through the Mojave Desert event in 2005, has outfitted its more chic Volkswagon Passat with eight laser sensors and two of Intel's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) quad-core blade servers, dwarfing the Cybervan's processing power.
Big Dell customers like Ask.com are signing up for new networks outfitted with bare-bones "blade" servers--so called because they they can be inserted and removed as easily as knives into kitchen blocks.
IBM's "brick" initiative which creates data storage farms out of cheap blocks of hard discs and the broader push for "blade" servers that make adding computer power easy to add were evidence of this move to commoditisation, said Mr Findlay.
There are also 1.8-inch products available in 200 GB and 400 GB storage capacities used in more space constrained blade server and micro-servers.
This so-called blade server, controlled by a Transmeta microprocessor, was designed merely to be a foot soldier in an army of servers that, when lashed together, could demolish the performance of much more sophisticated systems for much less cost.
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