Sunday, April 12, 2009

Sun rocks-n-rolls a datacenter in a box...

Seems everybody (Sun, Microsoft, Google)  is putting a lot of servers in a shipping container and just stack and plug in in Lego fashion to get a data center.  Cheaper than building an expensive building, I guess. Lets talk about commodity data centers....LOL

Sun took one of their containers to a earthquake testing facility and subjected it to the same shaking as the Northridge earthquake.  Having been dead center on top of the epicenter, I can attest that it was quite an experience - I wish my apartment fared as well...


Anyone have a spare container they want to get rid of??? Also about a 1000 motherboards???

I especially like the single voltage power supply and battery that Google uses...

RGB 7 segment display hack



Markus  hacked  a  7  segment display with some SMD RGB LEDs - the outcome is quite impressive.... <read more>