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Sun Puts Data Center Through 6.7 Earthquake
An anonymous reader sent in a video clip showing Sun experimenting with shoving a data center through a simulated 6.7 Earthquake.
Everything stays running, but some power cords came out and some screws worked loose. It's still kind of neat to see a bunch of racks shake like a polaroid.
Sweet, a link in a summary to the summary itself. Just what I've always wanted!
Their may be a grammatical error, misspeling, or evn a typo in this post.
Only on slashdot does this refer to server hardware.
(At Hooters, it refers to server software).
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(At Hooters, it refers to server software).
Server firmware, please. Typically, embodied in silicon(e).
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Usually the ones that cost about $35k/terrabyte as opposed to the ones that cost $99/terrabyte at newegg.
Well, if it comes to earthquakes, terrabytes surely beat terabytes. After all, it's not a monsterquake! :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Come sit on your grandpa's knee and I'll tell you a story.
Long before you were born, back when I was just a lad and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, there was no such thing as "digital photo-graphy". The only way to capture an image of someone or something (or "steal their soul" as we called it back then) was to use a primitive device that would capture light reflected from the target and project it on to a chemical "film", which would end up with a copy of the image embedded into it.
Later, we would take this film to an old-fashioned building known as a "drug-store" (sort of like Amazon, but you had to drive there, and sometimes you even had to interact with other people in order to purchase goods and services). We would drop off our film, it would be sent off to a magic "photo development center", and transformed into a picture printed on special photo-graphic paper.
If for some reason you didn't want to wait, you could instead take a picture with a so-called "Polaroid insta-matic camera", which had self-developing film. You would take the picture, and within seconds it would come out of the camera. However, it would still take several seconds to fully develop. Many people thought shaking the picture made it develop faster, but of course that was just silly superstition. The real way to make it develop faster was to sacrifice a goat, but few people tried that, and so were stuck with slowly developing pictures.
Now, of course, everyone has these "digital photo-graphical machines" which make Polaroids obsolete, and so soon no one will know the simple joy of shaking a Polaroid picture.
Come back tomorrow, and I'll tell you about how we had to use "floppy disk-ettes" to transfer files from one computer to another, and how we were able to dodge saber-toothed tigers using 1/2-inch tape reels.
They could have saved a bunch of time and money by simply setting up that server in the town of Esparto, California.
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Actually, I was wondering if this was being done in anticipation of the shakeup that will happen after the purchase... Get it? Get it? Thanks folks. I'm here all week. Try the veal and tip your waitress... :)
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Dry??? That's a myth equivalent to those who think snakes are slimy. Neither snakes nor polaroids are wet. Both are dry to the touch.
Mythbusters can prove that a snake is slimy...with explosives!!!
The good, the evil and the vacuum tubes.
They need to test if Data Centers can survive a Myth Busters taping. Thats a REAL test.
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Anonymous just because I'm to lazy to login...
The way I read it, is that the data center as a whole stayed up and functional. I'm sure it's built with enough redundancy to maintain service through a failure of a few machines/drives/switches/etc...
Not every power cord came loose, the "system" compensated, and the box kept on serving.
Now they need to test what happens when the field tech is replacing a drive right when the earthquake hits. That should be some fun watching! Does he still get the drive replaced?
Let's find out!
Lol what about the poor SOB who's in that tin can doing maintenance on the server when the earthquake hits.
..just because you can, doens't mean you should...