RE: Sun Project Blackbox / Portable Data Center

["Buhrmaster, Gary" <gtb () slac stanford edu>]

> Subject: Sun Project Blackbox / Portable Data Center
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> www.sun.com/blackbox
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> 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