IBM´s Power6 blade

The register reports about the new Power Blades. 4 GHz only, no 4,7 Ghz. And the L3 cache seems to be absent. The Power6 in the bigger systems has a 32 MB L3 cache. The datasheet on the IBM website doesn´t show any sign of this L3 cache. So the real performance of this baby will be quite interesting. I don´t think, that this blade will have a similar performance to an otherwise comparable configured pSeries. The infos in the Register article are somewhat sparse, but the photo in the middle of the article is the most interesting: This blade is meant of enterprise computing. But they didn´t stopped the nonsense of not hot-swappable hard disks. And more problematic: Only one disk. This blade looks like a stop gap solution, as the non-existance of a Power-Blade was a nice point to hurt IBM …. Dear, IBM … back to the blueprints, please. And have a look at our Sun Blade 6000 or 8000 chassis …