rack power question

Mon Mar 24 04:39:24 UTC 2008

About 8 months ago we were faced with an expansion issue where our 
datacenter upgrade was delayed due to permits. At the time sun had just 
announced their blackbox, now called the S20. During the road trip I got 
to walk through one of these. I found the cooling aspect to be very 
interesting. It works on front to back cooling but has what I would call 
radiators are sandwiched between each set of racks. From my 
non-technical point of view on HVAC this seemed to reduce a large amount 
of wasted cooling seen in large room datacenters. Is this something we 
might see in future fixed datacenters or is this limited to the portable 
data center due to technical limitations ? Due to cost we didn't get to 
use one but I found the idea very interesting.

Derrick