BladeCenter packaging, power, and cooling

IBM Journal of Research and Development

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 887-904

  Crippen, Martin J ^a   Alo, Roland K ^a   Champion, David ^a   Clemo, Raymond M ^a   Grosser, Cynthia M ^a   Gruendler, Nickolas J ^a   Mansuria, Mohan S ^a   Matteson, Jason A ^a   Miller, Michael S ^a   Trumbo, Brian A ^a  

^a IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; ELECTRONICS PACKAGING; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SERVERS;

COMPACT SERVER; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT; PROCESSOR BLADE; SERVER PROCESSORS;

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 28844508746     PISSN: 00188646     EISSN: 00188646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/rd.496.0887     Document Type: Article

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