Linux On HP Blades 115
HNFO writes: "HP is unveiling their new 'blade' servers that fit onto a single card. Their press release is here. They are currently available with your choice of RedHat, Debian and SuSE. A picture of the card can be found here and a picture of the chassis can be found here."
If you're looking for high-density slot-based computers, earlier postings about RLX's Transmeta blades and
OmniCluster's x86 variety might interest you as well.
useable for media (Score:4, Interesting)
Will heat be a problem? (Score:4, Interesting)
Not so dense? (Score:2, Interesting)
Of course having Linux available before Windows and HP-UX is interesting...
Link Correction (Score:2, Interesting)
this bests my record :( (Score:4, Interesting)
Compaq (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:disks not suitable for heavy duty applications (Score:3, Interesting)
One of my good friends works as a chip designer for Dell. We were talking over beers last weekend about how Dell is coming out with the same thing soon, only with the option of having either the cheezy laptop drives OR a normal sized SCSI drive. You'll be able to choose between density or speed.
Re:Will heat be a problem? (Score:2, Interesting)
Well, the dumb ones maybe. Somebody has to pay for the power, both for your rack of heaters and for the air conditioning. If an ISP doesn't figure out a way to pass those costs on (proportionately, you'd hope) to customers, it's eventually going to fail.
In fact it seems to me that a smart
This thing is a joke (Score:3, Interesting)
They need ridiculous 13U to house 16 blade servers - that's like 1.2 Severs per U.
Have a look at the RLX beasts linked in the article. Those have 24 blades in a 3 U case - that's a whopping 8 Servers per U. Now, that's "ultra density".
The HP stuff ist just
f.
Rack space cheap! (Score:4, Interesting)
Law suit waiting to happen (Score:3, Interesting)