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> 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
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