Sun Project Blackbox / Portable Data Center
Buhrmaster, Gary
gtb at slac.stanford.edu
Fri Oct 12 23:06:18 UTC 2007
> Subject: Sun Project Blackbox / Portable Data Center
>
> www.sun.com/blackbox
>
>
>
> Has anyone seen one of these things in real life?
SLAC has a blackbox (which is actually white)
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
commercialized offering, rather than custom built
(although these early ones are still essentially
custom built).
Note also that Google has (recently) patented
the "modular data center"
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/09/1543256&from=rss
Gary
More information about the NANOG
mailing list