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Open Blade Servers?

Posted by timothy on from the extensible dept.

Greg Smith points to this ZDNet story on new Intel chips aimed at blade servers, writing "Proprietary blade servers are coming on strong from IBM, Dell and HP. Where are the open blade servers? How did Google roll out 10,000 servers at such a low cost?"

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  1. Amusing... by flewp · · Score: 5, Funny

    I got an ad for AMD server solutions for that story..

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  2. I'm no shaving technician, but.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    My barber uses an open blade shaver, but I don't think it would be safe around all the wires in a server room. To be honest though, I don't see why you'd need any kind of blade in a server.

  3. Re:BULLSHIFT! by The+Trolling+Troller · · Score: 0, Funny

    Well, perhaps I mistakenly thought it might be running on these PIII's in question.

  4. open blades? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That could be dangerous. Over 50 people* die per month in server blade accidents. Sadly, these needless deaths could've been prevented by simple server blade cover kits.

    Only YOU can prevent fatal server room mishaps.

    Keep those blades covered, kids.

    This is a public service message brought to you by Sally Shark, official mascot for server room safety.

    *note: statistics may be fictional.

  5. Re:Pentium IIIs? by coene · · Score: 5, Funny

    Not really...

    Intel knows that they cant get the P4's power consumption low enough to hit the numbers, so they use a P3.

    Blade servers are already marketed by everyone that makes them as "a tad slower, but much more energy effecient", and the main goal is better density, to allow more power in the given space. The Pentium III fits this bill perfectly.

    Intel is smart enough to know that the P4 isnt everything. Engineering > Marketing, whenever that happens, its a good thing!

  6. Clarifying by davisshaver · · Score: 4, Funny

    So a balde server is sort of like a pie but in reverse. Instead of making it smaller you make it bigger by adding some more stuff, but you still share the same pan.

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  7. Setiathome Yess!!! by spineboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it bad to when you see stuff like this to think how you can use it to further boost your Setiathome scores

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  8. Look out Wesley Snipes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Blade Servers - Kickin' vampire ass (just in time for Halloween) and servin' web pages. That's just too slick.

  9. Re:whoever wrote this artlcle is on crack. by Istealmymusic · · Score: 3, Funny

    280 servers in a rack?! is that why they call it open whordware?

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  10. Re:Google cluster. Anyone? by hazyshadeofwinter · · Score: 4, Funny

    Here's your pictures. I can't believe you missed this, /. covered it way back in April.

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