New white paper on Open Source software with Dell PowerEdge 1655M C server blade available

[linux-poweredge@dell.com]

A new white paper, "Examining Open Source Software on the Dell
PowerEdge1655MC Server Blade" is available at
http://www.dell.com/us/en/esg/topics/esg_pedge_rackmain_servers_white_1_pedg
e_1655mc.htm
<http://www.dell.com/us/en/esg/topics/esg_pedge_rackmain_servers_white_1_ped
ge_1655mc.htm> 

This paper describes how a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) stack was
implemented on Dell's first modular server, the PowerEdge 1655MC blade, a
two- processor server, six of which fit in a 3U chassis. Redundant Apache
web servers with the PHP4 application server ran a Baseball statistics Top
10 application on two blades, driving a MySQL replication cluster on four
blades. All blades ran on Red Hat Linux 7.3, which is available pre-loaded
on the PE1655MC. This configuration was able to handle 400 simultaneous
users of the baseball Top 10 page, demonstrating that the PowerEdge 1655MC
is a cost-effective platform for Open Source applications.

Dave Jaffe

Dave Jaffe
Dell Solution Enablement Lab and Showcase
(512) 728-4543
dave_jaffe@dell.com