Less power means less heat, so RLX can cram 336 blade servers into a standard rack.

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It is the first rack standard designed for data centers that integrate the rack into the data center infrastructure.

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Barnes followed his friend the philosopher John Dewey in rejecting the meat-rack tidiness of standard museums.

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The bill of materials can rack up quickly when there's no standard and no interoperability, so how can such a ragtag operation really succeed?

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"It was standard procedure to reach above your head to the pot rack, grab a strainer and drop whatever you were working on through it, " he says.

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Datacenters can put up to 1800 servers in a single, 47U rack, which could take 10X as many racks using a standard architecture.

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