Talk:Computing blade

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I agree with the merge proposal. TechPurism 00:41, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

I don't think it would be a good merge, because blade computing is splitting into two groups -- blade pc 's and blade servers. Blade PC s are growing in popularity, and are produced by firms like ClearCube and H-Packard.

They should not be merged. Though they share a similar form factor, Blade PCs are purpose built for a specific purpose. Blade servers are general purpose infrastructure. As such they are different in design and use, and they have some significant differences in components and management methods.

I more or less agree with the merger, unless this article is significantly repositioned. This article should become Blade PC and it should have a disambig preamble to Blade server which returns the favour. This article which seems to position itself as a generic dictionary definition should then disappear, or it should be renamed Blade form factor to capture the common physical elements. MaxEnt 03:31, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Disagree with merge, but this article needs some cleaning?? A blade is anything which can be slotted into a computer system (including entire computers ala Blade server), cpu, memory, IO controller etc. A blade PC/server is a specific kind of computer blade, in that it is an entirely distinct computer, not an expansion to another one. Can anyone tell me what a blade PC is and how it's different from a blade server? I've tidied up the Blade server article to make it much clearer what is being described, please take a peek - Lipatden 15:03, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Indeed Lipatden did an excellent job. Yes, we could say "blade" is an informal term for an (unstandardized) form-factor, usually also applied to devices that happen to have such a form. I'd like to point out that "server" is a computer "role" rather than a computer type: any computer which *serves* -i.e. provides services- to other computing systems *works* as a server; but there's nothing intrinsic in it for saying it *is* a server: the fact that servers are usually high-performance computers is another matter. That said, I would rather agree that blade server should become "blade computer". A PC, instead, is a particular kind of computer (by convention). I guess no one so far has produced a blade PC, though I might be wrong. —Gennaro Prota^•Talk 15:40, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Though I think this article now well written, it is too high level to articulate the many and important differences in design, implementation, and use between servers (which are infrastructure) and blade PCs (which are optomized for a specific purpose). There should be two separate pages. For more detailed info about how the blade PCs differ from blade servers, see see WWW.ClearCube.COM or WWW.HP.COM/GO/CCI.