From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750829AbWDDT4y (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Apr 2006 15:56:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750831AbWDDT4y (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Apr 2006 15:56:54 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:8162 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750829AbWDDT4x (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Apr 2006 15:56:53 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Wes Felter Subject: Re: blade servers? Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:55:24 -0500 Message-ID: <4432CF2C.8000208@felter.org> References: <20060404024244.28E9A5F76B@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pixpat.austin.ibm.com User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20060404024244.28E9A5F76B@work.bitmover.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Larry McVoy wrote: > I figured that people here would know. If you were looking for blade > servers and you were more interested in cost and heat generation than the > most performance, what would you buy? Consider systems based on the "Sossaman" Xeon LV processor; it has good integer performance and low power. For example, at IBM we just released a new model of the BladeCenter HS20 (model 7981); I've seen one of these servers using only 100W when running. Real servers are never going to be as cheap as the cheapest whiteboxes, but they do run cool. Wes Felter - wesley@felter.org