Quebec Data Center Built In a Silo

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."

Comments

Re:SHPEGS

[DerekLyons]

Of course knowing that SHPEGS is your concept puts your advocacy in a different light.
 
I notice in the two years since SHPEGS was featured on Slashdot you don't appear to have much progress.

Marketing: not my thing, but here goes..

[itomato]

- reuse of existing structure (one with nice, thick walls)
- vertical scale-out (think cup stacking)
- leverages magic of physics (hot ring, cold ring - inherent strength of tubular structure)
- shorter-than-typical cable runs (~10m)
- tubes use less concrete and steel than cubes
- free-air cooling

The only impressive re-use of a concrete silo structure I have seen is a retrofit into a rock-climbing gym (http://stoneworksrockgym.com/photogallery.htm).

Re:proofreading? what's that?

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude, seriously. How is this about the article?

Furthermore, the law doesn't do anything that demographics and US cable doesn't do in every other province in favour of English...

Quebec bashing yields +4 informative on an article about technology, pure weakness...