Design Considerations for High-Speed Internetworking Among Compute Blades within a Blade Server Chassis
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The next generation of compute servers will be based on clusters of compute blades integrated within a common chassis The integration of advanced networking functions within the chassis promises to simplify the deployment of servers on a large scale by eliminating the need to deploy external inter-network devices on a oneto-one basis (e.g., one or more network ports per server). This paper examines the internetworking requirements for incorporating several very high-speed and redundant communication links on a common midplane for the interconnection of compute blades within the chassis and to the external network infrastructure.
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