Sun’s Project Blackbox
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Ars Tecnica writer Jeremy Reimer recently took a tour of Sun’s Project Blackbox and wrote it up. Project Blackbox is their “virtualized” datacenter concept built to fit inside a standard 20′ shipping container for maximum portability and efficiency. Blackbox is pretty self-contained. You need to only add power (200KW), 60-tons worth of water chilling action (the water needs to be colder then 55 degrees) and some form of network connectivity unless you only need completely contained number crunching power. The unit contains eight racks with one occupied by various monitoring equipment and network switches leaving seven racks to populate with machine goodness. Sun seems to be onto something as Rackable Solutions has begun selling their 40′ datacenter shipping container Concerto and higher-ups at Microsoft have begun mulling portable data centers as well. |
Ars Technica has another article about Sun’s data center in a box this time involving the internet archive.
Comment by roclar — March 29, 2009 @ 1:07 pm