Re: facebook spying on us?

[Joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On 9/30/11 15:58 , Seth Mattinen wrote:
> On 9/30/11 3:41 PM, Michael Painter wrote:
> > Steven G. Huter wrote:
> > > this August 2011 article in the Economist outlines some relevant info
> > > about the prineville, oregon FB datacenter.
> > >
> > > http://www.economist.com/node/21525237
> > >
> > > steve
> >
> > Informative article..."It's the climate, stupid".
> >
> > Got a laugh out of:
> > "The server racks are nearly silent, and their internal fans whirr
> > almost imperceptibly.
> > The only exceptions are network switches which, Facebook staff notes,
> > are perversely designed by even the biggest firms to vent air out of
> > their sides. As a result, they run loud and hot-and are openly sworn at."
>
>
> Which says to me that FB staff has no clue how chassis switches are
> constructed, or they don't like switches with vertically oriented line
> cards.

nobody puts a chassis switch at the top of a rack...

there are several 1u tors orderable with either ftb or btf airflow but,
it is a design consideration.

> ~Seth