Data center server packaging technology

Author

Patel, P. ; Herrman, B. ; Hughes, J. ; de Araujo, D.N. ; Cases, M. ; Pham, N. ; Matoglu, E.

Author_Institution

IBM Syst. & Technol. Group, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA

fYear

2005

fDate

24-26 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

203

Lastpage

206

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to describe BladeCenter™ packaging technology and compare with 1U and 2U rack systems to illustrate the improvements. The power and thermal design challenges are described. The paper covers in detail power and thermal design advantages, and overall cost performance compared to 1U servers. A blade server is a rack-optimized server architecture designed to include the benefits of standardized 1U rack systems while eliminating the complications associated with these systems. The term BladeCenter refers to a chassis that can hold a number of hot-swappable devices called blades server. A blade sever is an independent server containing one or more processors, memory, disk storage, and network controllers. The BladeCenter was created to simplify the deployment of servers in an enterprise infrastructure.

Keywords

integrated circuit packaging; network servers; thermal management (packaging); 1U rack systems; 2U rack systems; BladeCenter packaging technology; blade server; data center server; disk storage; hot-swappable devices; network controllers; power design; rack-optimized server architecture; thermal design; Blades; Costs; Ethernet networks; Network servers; Optical fiber cables; Packaging; Power cables; Power system management; Switches; Thermal management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging, 2005. IEEE 14th Topical Meeting on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9220-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPEP.2005.1563737

Filename

1563737