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Compaq Computer has begun selling its first "blade" servers, networked computers stacked side-by-side so that 280 can fit in a single six-foot-tall rack, the company will announce Monday.
The BL series, code-named "QuickBlade, is part of a movement that began more than a year ago to squeeze as much horsepower into as little floor space as possible. There was more urgency to the movement when the Internet was a hot item and telecommunications companies were still buying lots of equipment, but most analysts still believe bladed servers will catch on in the long run, especially with the arrival of software designed to make them easier to manage.
The first Compaq bladed server is the BL10e, which uses a 700MHz Pentium III chip that consumes much less electricity than most of Intel's CPUs, the company said. Twenty BL10e servers--each a naked motherboard with processor, up to 1GB memory, two Ethernet ports and a hard disk--can be mounted side-by-side within a rack-mountable chassis 5.25 inches tall....
Hewlett-Packard, which is seeking to acquire Compaq, beat Compaq to the blade server market by a few weeks, but the company piggybacked on an existing technology called CompactPCI.
IBM also is working on blades code-named "Excalibur." Dell Computer and Sun Microsystems, the other major server sellers, also have blade projects under way.
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