----- Original Message ----- From: "kishor bhagwat" aaaaarrrgghhh@yahoo.com To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 5:23 PM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Ignorance is bliss
and boy..is it good hardware! ever seen a blade server? I havent - but i hear they are real cool! ;-)
I have seen the pizza, half pizza servers from ibm, believe me, they are too cool. Blades are made by sun, which I am told is even thinner.
The module is just 3-4 inches thick, complete with hdd, 4 chips, memory, everything. Fits into a perfectly designed slot on the rack. You slide them in, they simply click in, with power points, connecters, nics, everything placed with precision engineering. {Pity I didnt ever work on those systems}
Some of them even has a type of built in fiber connecting various slots in the rack so that only one wire goes out of the rack to the main network and still connects all the pizzas/blades.
Regards Saswata