Slim, hotswappable blade servers fit in a single chassis like books in a bookshelf - and each is an independent server, with its own processors, memory, storage, network controllers, operating system and applications. The blade server simply slides into a bay in the chassis and plugs into a mid- or backplane, sharing power, fans, floppy drives, switches, and ports with other blade servers. The benefits of the blade approach will be obvious to anyone tasked with running down hundreds of cables strung through racks just to add and remove servers. With switches and power units shared, precious space is freed up - and blade servers enable higher density with far greater ease. Featuring innovation Power technology and advanced SIMD capabilities the IBM eServer BladeCenter JS20 is especially well suited for 64-bit high performance computing (HPC) environments. Minimize