rack-mounted
Adjective
Meaning
rack-mounted (not comparable)
Describing electronic equipment that is mounted in a standard (usually 19-inch) rack.
Examples
A digital multimeter (top), a rack-mounted oscilloscope (center) and control panel Also the picture above shows the extent of the integration between Quality Assurance and calibration.
It can be used to manage workload on a dedicated cluster of computers as well or it can seamlessly integrate both dedicated resources (rack-mounted clusters) and non-dedicated desktop machines (cycle scavenging) into one computing environment.
An IBM spokesman says BladeCenter servers are designed to produce 40% more processing power than rack-mounted servers without producing more heat.
They are 2U rack-mounted; the RA4300 includes an optional -5 tape drive; the RA5300 includes 360GB of capacity and the RA6300 480GB of flash.
A third common use for rack-mounted equipment is industrial power, control, and automation hardware.
In 2006, Sun ventured into the blade server (high density rack-mounted systems) market with the Sun Blade (distinct from the Sun Blade workstation).