BladeCenter processor blades, I/O expansion adapters, and units

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 837-859

  Hughes, James E ^a   Scollard, Michael L ^a   Land, Rudolf ^b   Parsonese, James ^a   West, Christopher C ^a   Stankevich, Victor A ^a   Purrington, Challis L ^a   Hoang, Danny Q ^a   Shippy, Gary R ^a   Loeb, Mitchell L ^a   Williams, Mark W ^a   Smith, Bruce A ^a   Desai, Dhruv M ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b IBM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTERS; HARD DISK STORAGE; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SERVERS;

BLADE SERVERS; EXPANSION BLADES; PROCESSOR BLADES;

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 28844501797     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: 00188646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.496.0837     Document Type: Article

References (13)

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