By Gemma Simpson, 25 May 2007 16:24
Along each aisle of the data centre, two rows of racks face one another. The main corridor between them is enclosed and cooled with an air conditioning unit.
Chris Scott, IBM's site and facilities service product line leader, said the air flow in the 'cool aisle' moves the colder air where it is needed most - at the front of the servers.
Around 2,100 blade servers can fit into the data centre.
Scott said a traditional data centre would struggle to house this number of blade servers and keep them cool.
Photo credit: Gemma Simpson
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1. Paul Shrimpton
Is anyone else reminded of the corridor to the turbolift in Star Trek?
2. anonymous
How does the 210 in a rack number come about? The racks in the photos seem to show 5 BladeCenter chassis, with 14 per chassis, that only equals 70 blades, potentially that's 140 physical processors or 560 processor cores,. But i still don't see how you get to 210. Unless they're only populating 1 in 3 racks (quite possible given the blanking plates visible) and counting processor cores!