12 Oct
2007
12 Oct
'07
7:06 p.m.
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