The perfect match for High-performance computing Blade Server

When you as a user, into the machine room, you will see a complex and incomparable connection, a little careless, touched off which cable, the system may be affected by the operation. Previously, in the traditional rack-type server built high-performance computer room, users can often see such a scene, the complexity of the cable can be used to describe the amazing. Now, however, the problem will soon be eased.

The use of http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13737.html "> Blade server, the use of cluster architecture, the construction of high-performance computer, not only can greatly reduce the number of cable connections, It may also bring other unexpected advantages, such as reduced footprint, reduced energy consumption, and reduced deployment time. Experts believe that High-performance computing has become a major application of Blade server.

It can be said that the blade server is the newest member of the server family, in the development by a variety of problems, but also through a lot of detours.

But in order to survive, the first application The blade found was High-performance computing, which also made the blade server market grow fast. For several consecutive quarters, blade servers have grown more than 20% per cent in the slow-growing server market.

The rapid growth of the market has aroused the enthusiasm of the enterprise, in the standard issues affecting the application and development of the background, the enterprise has become the main power of Blade server development. According to IDC, HP and IBM are the leading users of the blade server market, which accounts for more than 80% of the blade server market. Around the two companies, Hewlett-Packard and IBM two features distinct Blade server camp, but also gathered a large number of various types of enterprises. The industry has called these two camps the two industry standards, which set a high threshold for new entrants in the future.

Subsequently, the introduction of blade server enterprises gradually increased. Dell's products are growing in industry standards. Sun began to launch several types of blades like HP. SGI has introduced a blade system dedicated to high-performance computing, including computing, networking, storage, power, and various blades; Recently, a high density computing blade using the Intel four core processor has been launched globally, and this blade does nothing else to build a clustered system with high-performance computing. SGI has previously had cluster system products based on IA architecture rack servers, high bandwidth, low latency high-performance computing systems based on the SMP architecture of shared memory, and now adds a blade-built cluster system to the advantage of blades to attract more users.

With the development of foreign companies in full swing, domestic enterprises due to the technical strength of the reasons, very little involved in Blade server field. However, the dawning company is different: first, it has server development and sales experience; Second, it has the experience of high-performance computing and technology accumulation, the combination of both, the introduction of Blade server, Building high-performance computing system, is simply the best choice.

However, do not assume that the threshold of blade server is lowered. In the industry standard server domain, including rack and tower server, domestic enterprises have the opportunity, there are markets; However, in the blade server market, domestic enterprises want to make a difference, investment and accumulation will be quite large. Now, the blade has entered a new stage of development, the computational density and the overall performance of the system have been paid attention to. Blade server is seen as a complete system, in the single Blade performance improvement, the whole system integration, reliability, management, and the challenges of technical strength is getting stronger.