<div>I was down in our server room with the ICE this afternoon. Its worth describing how they are put together for the purposes of this thread.</div>
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<div>Each rack has four blade chassis in it. These are called Independent Rack Units in SGI speak.</div>
<div>An IRU has sixteen compute blades, plus the mains PSUs and Infiniband blades.</div>
<div>Each IRU has an L1 chassis controller.</div>
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<div>At the rear of each IRU there is a bank of big fans. Each IRU couples up to a 1/4 sized rear rack door, using a foam gasket. Each of these 1/4 sized doors is a swing out heat exchanger.</div>