[100027] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Sun Project Blackbox / Portable Data Center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Buhrmaster, Gary)
Fri Oct 12 19:07:37 2007
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:06:18 -0700
In-Reply-To: <009e01c80d1e$21586400$64092c00$@org>
From: "Buhrmaster, Gary" <gtb@slac.stanford.edu>
To: "Lorell Hathcock" <lorell@hathcock.org>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Sun Project Blackbox / Portable Data Center
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> www.sun.com/blackbox
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> =20
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> Has anyone seen one of these things in real life?
SLAC has a blackbox (which is actually white)=20
installed, and running it packed with servers
for batch computing for the high energy physics program.
http://today.slac.stanford.edu/feature/2007/blackbox1.asp
Of course, using shipping containers for data centers
(and telco/networking) is not new, but this is a=20
commercialized offering, rather than custom built
(although these early ones are still essentially
custom built). =20
Note also that Google has (recently) patented
the "modular data center"
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=3D07/10/09/1543256&from=3Drss
Gary=20
