Blade Servers

[mike-DlQxw/23Tq2aMJb+Lgu22Q at public.gmane.org]

> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 06:08:42PM -0500, mike-DlQxw/23Tq2aMJb+Lgu22Q at public.gmane.org wrote:
>> <plug -- I work for Sun>
>>
>> I really liked working on Sun's b1600 blade system.  It's 3U high and
>> fits
>> 16 units.
>>
>> b100x - Single athlon blade
>> b200x - Dual xeon blade (2 units wide)
>
> I thought Sun had discontinued all intel based systems.  Or are they
> just not designing any new ones?

Not exactly.  There is a push to go forward with x86-64 hardware, which
doens't neccesarily disqualify intel now that they've co-opted amd's
instruction set.

That said, expect more of both amd and intel based hardware in the future.

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