Bringing in blades and tidying cables
By Gemma Simpson, 25 May 2007 16:24
Another feature of IBM's data centre is that all the cables are kept within the body of the racks - not underneath the floor.
IBM's Scott said by removing all the cabling from under the floor, there is more space available to cool the servers.
The server's front-cooling system and the lack of cabling help reduce the amount of energy used, he added.
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!