Sun Microsystems’ Datacenter in a Shipping Container

by Duncan on October 24, 2006

Sun Project Blackbox

Remember that Google Container concept that Cringely wrote about a while back? Sun Microsystems now sells these things!

Take a look: (super cheese video)

One of these units would make it into the top 200 computers in the world. They stack up to 6 containers high! It can support 1.5 petabytes of storage per container. Cringely says “it’s the largest sneakernet ever built

Some of Sun’s usage scenarios.

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