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Bladed servers are increasingly being adopted in high-density enterprise datacenters by virtue of the improved benefits they offer in form factor density, modularity, and more robust management for control and maintenance with respect to rack-optimized servers. In the future, such servers are likely to form the key foundational blocks for a variety of system architectures in data centers. However, designing a commodity blade system environment that can serve as a general-purpose infrastructure platform for a wide variety of future system architectures poses several challenges. This paper discusses these challenges and presents specific system architecture solutions, along with application examples to illustrate the general-purpose nature of the infrastructure for parallel and distributed applications.
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An erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10619-007-7016-x
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Leigh, K., Ranganathan, P. & Subhlok, J. General-purpose blade infrastructure for configurable system architectures. Distrib Parallel Databases 21, 115–144 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10619-007-7010-3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10619-007-7010-3