1st Blade Server That Supports Both Intel and AMD

An anonymous reader writes "According to the Inquirer, Pogo Linux just announced the first blade server in the world that will accept both AMD and Intel blades. This will probably shake up the Blade world because users won't be tied into one hardware platform anymore. At $10k for 4 blades, KVM, and switch, it's making blades more affordable than ever."

Cool.

[imstanny]

Now how about some benchmarks.

at the same time?

[VolciMaster]

does it accept the AMD- and Intel-based blades at the same time? That would be interesting, but I wonder why you would want to do that.

Generally sticking with one vendor for a given environment is a good idea. Also, the AMD64 blades do have fundamental differences from Intel's EMT64 architecture, and I wonder how well those would talk to each other.

It's nice that the backplanes and cabinets support both, but I don't think I would want both running at the same time on the same server. I might like to have

How is this different from HP Blades?

[questionlp]

You can have both Intel and AMD blade servers within the same chassis. The only thing that would make this different (and their site is not very clear on this) is if you can have both an Intel and an AMD processor within the same blade module.

Re:How is this different from HP Blades?

[bhtooefr]

The Katana offers 12 blades inside the 4u enclosure with two processor sockets per blade. The Katana apparently provides a lot of flexibility, having the ability to configure each blade with both Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron processors simultaneously.

Twelve blades in the 4u enclosure with two sockets per blade... that means that blade is the module, enclosure is the thingy that holds the modules.

So, yes, there appears to be an option for both an mPGA604 and a mPGA940 socket (and the associated northbridges an

Re:How is this different from HP Blades?

[neurovish]

why?