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Submission + - Virtualized datacenter in shipping container!

jschmitz writes: "Now that there is a surplus of shipping containers in the US people are starting to get creative with them. Sun Microsystems for instance have built a virtualized datacenter in one. They are calling it Project Blackbox http://www.sun.com/emrkt/blackbox/index.jsp It sounds like an amazing idea for rapid deployment in "hard to build datacenter" areas, relief efforts in disaster area's things like that. Here are some of the specs from Sun's website.. 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 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. Sounds mighty impressive! What do you guys think?"

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