Turbo Fredriksson said on Mon, May 16, 2005 at 08:40:09PM +0200: > Quoting wagnerc@plebeian.com (Chris Wagner): > > > While we're on this subject, just what *are* blade servers good for? From > > what I can tell they're just good for popping in more CPU's as u need them. > > But is that really easier/cheaper/better than just putting in another 1U? > > SPACE! Imagine 300U - that's the 'size' the last cluster I worked with was. > With blade servers, we ended up with tree full racks (3*42U). This with separate > UPS'es, switches etc in each - AND space to spare!. My company looked at blades, and for CPU intensive work they were just not worthwhile; they can't perform as well as 1U dual Opteron boxes, and the they are expensive enough that it was cheaper to pay for the extra colo space. YMMV, of course. M
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