Ibm Eserver Hs20 Architecture - IBM Nortel Networks L2/3 Manual

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2.3 IBM Eserver HS20 architecture

In this section, we discuss the architectural design of the IBM Eserver BladeCenter HS20.
This is presented as just one example of the blade design for a typical dual-processor server.
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