[Info-vax] On the topic of Open Compute Designs Possibly Suitable for OpenVMS x86-64

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-03-12, Bob Gezelter <gezelter at rlgsc.com> wrote:
> Interesting article in Ars Technica on Microsoft's submission for Open
> Compute.
>
> From the article:
>
> ...
>
> The servers are built for high density and high efficiency. The first version
> of the Open CloudServer specification (OCS) servers Microsoft published packed
> 24 server blades into a 12U chassis. Compute blades included a pair of Ivy
> Bridge-based Intel Xeon processors, up to 192GB RAM, one or two 10gigE ports,
> and up to four disks; storage blades packed in ten disks. The 12U units share
> power and networking infrastructure.
>

Yes, but do they have ECC memory ? :-)

Simon.

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