2x 3/8" rack bolts....

Yet there is only one, and its half done up...

well done sun.

...will one day have the space to store their archive of attempts at typing out an error free Hamlet script?

We need one to archive all prior art against future patent attacks

...pictured is a common, "domestic grade" smoke detector. No fire suppression visible on the image.

Paris might call this fire suppression.

Some good pics and tech detail at http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~boeheim/blackboxsite.html

Unless Blackbox have done something very clever - it looks just like a detector to me.

Tomb Stone - what you will need if you wait for that to put you out!!

It looks a lot like prior art to me.

I might also suggest James Follett's "Trojan" (1991) depicts a containerised broadcasting studio for a rogue satellite broadcasting mogul. He later moves his whole data centre onto an ocean going cargo ship.

I've not read the Google patent but I wonders what is not in the paper that is in the patent. Did they include their use of MPU's pre-screened by Intel with higher than usual operating temperatures?

On a side note $3000 for 320 sq ft is c $9.35 a sq. ft. That sounds quite cheap for a house. Not wanting to live in one, just saying.

probably being a bit of a **** here, but by my reckoning, the reverse of the rack has some pretty scruffy cable routing. I'm sure it could be done more tidily. But it's too much to ask when they have a screw loose.

Is fire detection, not supression. Show us the heptafluoropropane bottles!

Mine's the asbestos lined button-down...

Richard Dawkins was dead on when he said that the gene was being replaced by the meme as a basic unit of evolution. We have here one big tank full ready to outlive all of us, and not a piece of meat in sight.

Then not only is Google's patent invalid if anyone can testify that Page or anyone else from Google especially any listed "inventors" was there. A company I used to work with, along with one of its competitors, was sued by a third competitor over what we all referred to as "the kitchen sink patent" the third competitor had. The "inventors" on "the kitchen sink patent" had done the same thing as this article accuses Page of doing - sitting through presentations by folks and then rushing to file a patent on those other folks inventions. In court, the lead "inventor" testified that he never saw the presentations that predated his patent filing. Unfortunately for him, at least one of the presentations was at a DARPA meeting and DARPA officials not only testified he was there, they had his signature on the sign-in sheet. We won the patent case (after roughly half a decade of litigation). The jury, when they delivered their verdict, also made the advisory determination that the patent is unenforceable due to "inequitable conduct".

http://www.ipfrontline.com/depts/article.asp?id=2046&deptid=7

http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/04-1007.pdf

I remember him - on Horizon - years back...

"All it needs from the outside world is a power source (25kW per rack) and a cooling-fluid hook-up (ordinary tap water)".

An ethernet connection wouldn't go amiss either, otherwise it's simply a box sucking in 200kW ( eight racks ) for no real purpose.

Mine's the one with the 1000 amp cable in the pocket.

It is watercooled; read the article. I imagine the waste host water is simply poured down the drain.

... the bleedin' obvious.

Aircons and other large modular systems have been pre-built into containers for decades. What's so special about a few servers and associated support?

michael

By the looks of the thing, it's cross-threaded, too. Multi-million dollar datacentre fucked by a $0.20 bolt. Gotta love that mentality...

In the 1980's the company I was working for in Toronto was using a Disaster recovery site which had "computer rooms to go" - 20 foot shipping containers with Power and Air Conditoning which could be delivered to a site, loaded with what every your prefered hardware was and you would have a computer room in the box.

The Spec shows several Fire Suppression Options:

HFC-125 Fire Extinguishing Agent, RoHS:Y

HFC-227ea Fire Extinguishing Agent, RoHS:Y

FK-5-1-12 Fire Extinguishing Agent, RoHS:Y

BTW, that's not a "common, "domestic grade" smoke detector." It is a standard

Data Center Grade Particulate and Smoke Detector.

Love these idiotic comments from the peanut gallery.

HP uses those to ship replacement motherboards (one per).

I'm the product group manager for the Sun MD, so let me clarify a few things.

* The rack bolts were left unsecured by the service engineer to facilitate rack removal during the tours. If you doubt the seismic capabilities of the Sun Modular Datacenter (Sun MD), check out our earthquake test video: http://www.sun.com/products/sunmd/s20/gallery/video2.jsp#video2

* There is an integrated, VESDA smoke detection and fire suppression system offering your choice of FE-25, FM-200, or FK-5-1-12.

* The Sun MD runs on a closed loop water system. There is no waste water. An external chiller sends cold water in which is then sent back to the chiller.

* There are panels on each side of the Sun MD for network hook-up.

* It's special because you can deliver a 200-kW datacenter virtually anywhere in the world in a matter of weeks vs. the months and years it takes to build out a conventional datacenter.

* A meat locker is generally 36 - 38 degrees Fahrenheit. We try to maintain an internal temperature for the Sun MD between 68 and 72 degrees, depending on humidity, etc.

* For more information, check out the product specifications and videos: http://www.sun.com/sunmd/

Thanks.

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thanks Maurice for clearing up the many questions and silly comments made by the great unwashed...

now they can all just STFU !!!!

mines the one with the keys to the container in the pocket...