TCSC Newsletters Volume 5, No.3, 2003

The Case for Blades in High-Performance Computing

A blade server is a complete computer system with multiple "blades" residing in one enclosure. Blade servers offer high efficiency levels due to high density, cable consolidation, ease of deployment, homogeneous software component revisions, utilization management, and their ability to reconfigure workloads. This article describes the role of blade-servers in cluster computing, and highlights how blade server clusters support high-performance computing (HPC) workloads.