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News Release from: ICP | Subject: Rack 5U Blade 10HP and the Rack 5U Blade 14HP
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 23 March 2005
Blade servers provide flexible platforms
ICP, a leading industrial computer products manufacturer, today announced the introduction of two new blade server configurations called the Rack 5U Blade 10HP and the Rack 5U Blade 14HP
Industrial computer products manufacturer ICP has released two new blade server configurations called the Rack 5U Blade 10HP and the Rack 5U Blade 14HP. The Rack 5U Blade 10HP comes as standard with 8 blade modules. Each module consists of an EPIA M10000 Mini-ITX mainboard and an ICP PW200 200W DC-ATX convertor with a 2.5Gbyte hard disk drive (size selected by customer).
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The module also has a 48-pin DIN connector that plugs directly into a 12V busbar in the 5U 19in rack enclosure.
The Rack 5U 14HP has six modules in the 19in 5U rack enclosure.
Each of these modules is slightly wider and has an EPIA M10000 mainboard, a PW200 DC-ATX convertor, and a 3.5in hard disk drive attached.
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In the same manner as the eight-way system, the modules connect to a 12V busbar via a 48-pin DIN connector.
The EPIA M10000 mini-ITX mainboard is a fully featured, low power, low cost, small form factor (170 x 170mm) 1GHz x86 solution with up to 1Gbyte of DDR memory, a 10/100Base-T LAN port, four USB2.0 ports, and two IEEE1394 (FireWire) ports.
'New corporate and industrial IT environments present new requirements including high performance, high density server systems, while maintaining low power consumption and a small form factor as space becomes more of a premium', said Kevan Wells, Project Manager at ICP.
'The new ICP blade server systems using small form factor and low power consumption EPIA mini-ITX mainboards meet these requirements perfectly'.
Although the blade servers come fitted with EPIA M10000 mainboards as standard, customers can choose from a wide range of other EPIA mainboards depending on the features required.
The mainboards are all powered from a 12V rail allowing the boards to be hot-swappable.
If two Rack 5U 10HP systems are placed back to back in a 19in rack then a total of 16 blades are available, achieving a very high density low power blade server system.
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