Memory improvements boost blades
http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/viu/viu102.html
Memory modules are designed with significant enhancements to the JEDEC standard, including registered functionality, reduced module height, advanced cooling features and densities up to 4Gbyte Virtium Technology has released its DDR2 Very Low Profile (VLP) and DDR2 Ultra Low Profile (ULP) blade memory modules for blade server systems.
Both types of memory modules are designed with significant enhancements to the JEDEC standard, including registered functionality, reduced module height, advanced cooling features and densities up to 4Gbyte.
Very cool, the more memory we can support in the blade form factor, the more applicable the technology can become whether for virtualization, grid computing or as an alternative to rack servers in volume. Will need to take a look, I know the main barrier was the cost of the memory chips being high, if we can support more memory slots and decrease the cost of the larger DIMMS, then this should bring more benefits to the platform, particularly for virtualization or high performance computing.


