[geeks] Need geek assistance

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Sunday 18 April 2010, Jonathan Patschke wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2010, sammy ominsky wrote:
> > Blades suck a lot of power for the space they're in.  We get 2x20A
> > per rack, and at the price we'd pay for additional circuits, it's
> > not possible to run a 4U blade server in the rack with anything
> > else.  I had to quote a friend who wanted to colo one with us
> > $1500/month because of the power requirements.  We run a full rack
> > of 1- and 2U servers with modern energy requirements in that same
> > cabinet.
> 
> I guess that depends on whose chassis.  IBM's, indeed, is incredibly
> current-hungry.  I've heard from our IS guys at $ork that Sun's isn't
>  too bad, but I don't know the specifics, since I'm 90% retired from
>  that line of work.

IBM's may seem power-hungry but most of that is because they can fit 14 
dual-CPU machines in 7U of space, where Sun fits about 1 machine per U.  
At work, we're building a new cluster (we do about one a year) and we've 
ruled out 1Us and the Sun blade thing because it's not dense enough.

Pat
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