 fullsized | websized Inside of StorageServer. Those are all 18GB SSA disks. Power supplies on the bottom, and control system in the middle. |
 fullsized | websized Using laptops as terminals is so 90s. Real terminals bring back the spirit of the 80s! |
 fullsized | websized Enterprise StorageServer. We still need to figure out how to power this up and get it hooked up to the p690. Note genuine classic VT220 terminal on top. }:) |
 fullsized | websized Back of the BladeCenter. The big acoustic attenuation module blocks most of the view, though. |
 fullsized | websized Another shot of the back of the BladeCenter. |
 fullsized | websized IBM BladeCenter. Blades on the left are Intel Pentium 4 Xeon; blades on the right are Power4. DS400 storage unit on top. The BigAss(TM) UPS is on the bottom; 5000VA at 230VAC! |
 fullsized | websized Lots and lots of PCI slots. You can assign different slots to different logical partitions. |
 fullsized | websized Back of the p690. The "Capacitor cards" are just that; they're completely full of small electrolytic capacitors. Probably totals several whole Farads! The vent above the cards expels very hot air very quickly. It's a miracle the room does not overheat! |
 fullsized | websized Power supplies! |
 fullsized | websized 11/22/2005 - IBM p690 "Regatta" -- Each of the eight cards on the outside has 32GB of RAM. The two fans in the middle cool the 32 processors inside. |
 fullsized | websized The p690. The slots on the bottom are hot swap SCSI. Each box is a seperate controller, and each controller can be assigned to a seperate logical partition if desired. |
 fullsized | websized 5/26/2005 - New servers: PowerEdge systems on left and right have 1.25TB useable storage each. The one in the middle (with the sticker) is "SIMBA", the new mail front-end server we are building. |
