Distributed home automation systems

A big advantage of blade servers is the ease of redundancy. When you need another computer, you simply plug in another blade, and it uses the same power supplies as the others. You then have one big power supply, and a second for redundancy. You can have redundant blades as well, and the workload of one blade could fail-over to another if it should die. The storage is handled similarly, with raid arrays being either dedicated to a blade, or shared among a few blades.

If you dedicate a blade to running terminal server, you could support a slew of touchscreen from one blade. The workload would be light, compared to what TS was designed for, which is a user at each terminal, working constantly.
 
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