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Inside a Microsoft data center

section: microsoft, for your questions: KezNews forum, 25.3.2009

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It takes mucho computes and terabytes to create the 3D models used in Microsoft’s Virtual Earth online mapping service. So how do they cram 5,000 cores and 10,000 terabytes - 10 petabytes - of storage into 3 40 ft. shipping containers?




Sun pioneered containerized data centers with their 2006 water-cooled Project Blackbox. But the Microsoft model is air-cooled and in production today in Boulder, CO.



Putting ~3400 disk drives and 1700 cores into 320 sq. ft. isn’t easy, which is what makes this picture so interesting:



Unlike Google’s barebones racks, these racks are labeled Verari. Turns out that Verari Systems builds containerized data centers that look familiar.

source: blogs.zdnet.com

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