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Quebec Data Center Built In a Silo

Posted by timothy on from the for-next-andomeda-strain-remake dept.

1sockchuck writes "A supercomputing center in Quebec has transformed a huge concrete silo into the CLUMEQ Colossus, a data center filled with HPC clusters. The silo, which is 65 feet high with two-foot thick concrete walls, previously housed a Van de Graaf accelerator dating to the 1960s. It was redesigned to house three floors of server cabinets, arranged so cold air can flow from the outside of the facility through the racks and return via an interior 'hot core.' The construction and operation of the unique facility (PDF) are detailed in a presentation from CLUMEQ."

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  1. Re:Sun's future plans are even bigger by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dumb mods never heard of The Forbin Project or the super-computer called Colossus

  2. Re:And you thought your computer was a tower by perlchild · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well the silo houses just a bit more than half(2700sq.ft) compared to the other location(it's apparently a multi-campus project, the other campus has 5000sq.ft) not sure if that's an academic requirement. As per your comment though, haven't met a computer that didn't fear comparison with an office tower....

  3. Re:But, does it run... by tomhudson · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nothing runs on poutine. Try this: Eat a bunch of it and try running

    Nonsense - real poutine is made with french fries fried in oil with at least 100,000 km on it - you WILL have the runs after eating enough of it ...

    Seriously, poutine made with fries done in new oil, cooked properly (fry them, take them out, drain, refry so the outside is crip and the inside is cooked), top with curd cheese and poutine sauce is awesome. The only thing better is Italian poutine - poutine with a thick and meaty spaghetti sauce. It does for french fries what a Michigan Hotdog does for "tube steak."

    Spice it up with pepper rings and/or crushed chillies. Eat.

  4. Re:Could have some fun with this by damien_kane · · Score: 2, Informative

    A data center in a silo would be almost as good. Looks like a death ray generator to me. Yeah, Canadian death ray. Pew! Pew! Pew! Eh?

    That's preposterous... Everyone knows that the Canadian doomsday machine is at the top of the CN Tower.

  5. Re:proofreading? what's that? by Korbeau · · Score: 3, Informative

    Give the slide author a break. He was probably one of those kids who were forbidden **by LAW** to be taught English in school before the 4th Grade.

    That's bill 101 and the separatist PQ for you.

    Please mod the above down, the first part is entirely false, the rest is simply xenophobic or whatever you wanna call it.

    Yes, there is a law that incites non-english immigrant people to choose a french primary school since Quebec primary language is french.

    Nobody prevents anyone to learn english, and there are of course english courses in primary school.