news.com.com — Sun Microsystems believes many customers will prefer to buy data center equipment in convenient shipping container-sized modules rather than building more expensive and elaborate buildings on their own. It plans to show off the idea, called Project Blackbox, at its Menlo Park, Calif., facilities on Oct. 17.
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nutcaseOct 17, 2006
the cell phone companies have been deploying these types of units for years to cram in radio gear and computers for cell transmission
Closed AccountOct 17, 2006
They have them stacked two high in the video, so there's at LEAST that much lee-way.
Closed AccountOct 17, 2006
After watching the video again, I noticed it said it required water, which (IMO) could only mean watercooling.
prontoOct 18, 2006
heh anyone see that photo from there site, the last one, its on mars ! yay!<a class="user" href="http://www.sun.com/emrkt/blackbox/scenarios.jsp">http://www.sun.com/emrkt/blackbox/scenarios.jsp</a>
theespOct 18, 2006
the mars pic is cool :)Good on ya Sun
andocomOct 18, 2006
You don't honestly think they will be selling them painted black with big Sun logos and s**t on the sides do you? They may as well paint "This shipping container holds millions of dollars worth of high tech equipment, steal me."
cesium62Oct 18, 2006
I'll go out on a limb and guess 100kw. 250 100-watt processors, x2 for disk drives and stuff, x2 for cooling.The mars picture had, what, less than 5kw of solar panels stacked on top? The picture of the box next to a windmill seems vaguely plausible from a power supply standpoint.