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Das Logfile über mein Leben im Netz.

SUN präsentiert: Rechenzentrum im Transport-Container Mittwoch, 18. Oktober 2006, 03:49:51

SUN verblüfft die Welt (naja, zumindest mich) mit einem normalen Transport-Container, der ein komplettes Datacenter enthält: Project Blackbox.

  • A single Project Blackbox could accommodate 250 Sun Fire T1000 servers with the CoolThreads technology with 2000 cores and 8000 simultaneous threads.
  • A single Project Blackbox could accommodate 250 x64-based servers with 1000 cores.
  • A single Project Blackbox could provide as much as 1.5 petabytes of disk storage or 2 petabytes of energy-efficient tape storage.
  • A single Project Blackbox could provide 7 terabytes of memory.
  • A single Project Blackbox could handle up to 10,000 simultaneous desktop users.
  • A single Project Blackbox currently has sufficient power and cooling to support 200 kilowatts of rackmounted equipment.

Wenn das Teil tatsächlich hält, was es verspricht, werden noch mehr Web-Startups wie Pilze aus dem Boden schiessen - weil es vergleichsweise dreckbillig ist:

Based on Sun's calculations, Project Blackbox will cost 1/100th of the initial cost of a traditional 10,000-square-foot datacenter, and one fifth the cost per square foot, as well as be 20 percent more efficient. Project Blackbox will also require about one third of the space of a conventional deployment with equivalent compute power.

Wahnsinn. Da tun sich schon neue Horizonte auf.

via Nicholas Carr's Blog.