Sun Modular Datacenter
Sun Modular Datacenter (Sun MD, known in the prototype phase as Project Blackbox) is a portable data center built into a standard 20-foot intermodal container (shipping container) manufactured and marketed by Sun Microsystems (which is now owned by Oracle Corporation). An external chiller and power are required for the operation of a Sun MD. A data center of up to 280 servers can be rapidly deployed by shipping the container in a regular way to locations that might not be suitable for a building or another structure, and connecting it to the required infrastructure.[1] Sun Microsystems states that the system can be made operational for 1% of the cost of building a traditional data center.[2]
Customers
On 14 July 2007, the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) deployed a Sun MD containing 252 Sun Fire X2200 compute nodes as a compute farm.[3][4] Other customers include Radboud University.[5]
In 2009, the Internet Archive migrated its digital archive onto Sun Modular Datacenter.[6]
History
The prototype was first announced as "Project Blackbox" in October 2006;[7] the official product was announced in January 2008.[8]
A Project Blackbox with 1088 Advanced Micro Devices Opteron processors ranked #412 on the June 2007 TOP500 list.[9]
In late 2003, employees of the Internet Archive wrote a paper proposing "an outdoor petabyte JBOD NAS box" of sufficient capacity to store the then-current Archive in a 40' shipping container.[10] The first implementation of the concept have been realized using Sun Microsystems' Modular Datacenters in March 2009.[11]
See also
References
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External links
- Sun Modular Datacenter S20 Product Library Documentation
- Project Blackbox Blog
- Blackbox Earthquake Resistance and Reliability Test Video on YouTube
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