By: Paul A. Clayton (paaronclayton.delete@this.gmail.com), October 12, 2018 4:52 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
rwessel (robertwessel.delete@this.yahoo.com) on October 12, 2018 1:01 am wrote:
> Paul A. Clayton (paaronclayton.delete@this.gmail.com) on October 11, 2018 7:49 pm wrote:
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>> Is there some fundamental reason why two computers could not share a single motherboard, power supply, etc.?
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>> Obviously such an arrangement would not be as useful as being able to share memory contents
>> (even without cache coherence) and capacity as well as network (and other I/O) interfaces,
>> but it would appear to address the density/form factor and PSU count issues.
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> You mean like the old Supermicro TwinBlades?
TwinBlades use a single board for the computer, but because they are blade servers they share a redundant PSU system with other blades (i.e., even more resource sharing).
> Paul A. Clayton (paaronclayton.delete@this.gmail.com) on October 11, 2018 7:49 pm wrote:
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>> Is there some fundamental reason why two computers could not share a single motherboard, power supply, etc.?
>>
>> Obviously such an arrangement would not be as useful as being able to share memory contents
>> (even without cache coherence) and capacity as well as network (and other I/O) interfaces,
>> but it would appear to address the density/form factor and PSU count issues.
>
>
> You mean like the old Supermicro TwinBlades?
TwinBlades use a single board for the computer, but because they are blade servers they share a redundant PSU system with other blades (i.e., even more resource sharing).