Project Blackbox packages compute, storage, and network infrastructure capabilities into scalable, modular units outfitted with state-of-the-art cooling, monitoring, and power distribution systems. Customers will be able to order a variety of standard and custom configurations of systems, storage, networking, and software. Housed in a standard 20-foot shipping container for maximum flexibility, Project Blackbox will be easily transported using common shipping methods. Simple hookups for water, AC power, and networking will enable customers to quickly deploy Project Blackbox upon delivery.
Headed toward productization in mid-2007, Project Blackbox engineers the cost, complexity, and rigidity out of legacy datacenters. By applying Sun’s trademark innovation to the constraints of the traditional datacenter, Project Blackbox delivers four unique advantages:
- An “instant-on” and rapid deployment advantage
- Breakthrough economics from scalability, use of standard components, cooling innovation, and lower cost to build
- A 100 percent virtualized infrastructure that lets customers build once, deploy anywhere
- The convenience and flexibility of deploying a virtualized datacenter when and where needed
A while ago Google admited working on a project just like this and people laughed. Now Sun is coming out with it, and giving some good ideas on how they can be used. Mind they had a picture of these boxes being on roof tops…. under utilization of space, and I can’t see a downtown skyscraper hotel or such buiilding having the strength in the roof, and the excess power availavble to have one of those there. But the idea itself is sound. You just need to give it a power source, and if they deisgned it right, it won’t need too much; and you need to give it a connection to the net…. or building if you are just using it for number crunching. I wonder if movie studios will start leasing these for crunch time on a movie. It’s definatly set up for that.
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