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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. And you thought your computer was a tower by davidwr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Size DOES matter.

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  2. Sun's future plans are even bigger by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sun spokesperson Dr. C. Forbin announced a second center would be rolling out on the island of Crete after the population has been relocated.

  3. Re:But, does it run... by natehoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nothing runs on poutine. Try this: Eat a bunch of it and try running. Guarantee YOU aren't going to run on it, and you're DESIGNED to convert food into fuel.

    Unless, by "run", you mean "collapse and expire due to massive arterial blockage", in which Quebecois is a somewhat more condensed language than I gave it credit for.

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  4. Re:Should have left the missile by Dahamma · · Score: 5, Funny

    RTFA (or even just the summary!) This is Quebec. They don't have nuclear missiles.

    And we know this for a fact because if they did, they would have already nuked all English-speaking Canadian cities and declared independence years ago.

  5. Could have some fun with this by HangingChad · · Score: 5, Funny

    Back in college the city was putting in a new, very large water tower. We started a rumor that it was actually a nuclear power plant disguised as a water tower and if you called the city, they would claim it was only a water tower.

    They got enough calls it made the local paper. And when they tried to explain it was a water tower, "They said you'd say that!" Classic.

    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?

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