Sun Modular Datacenter

Sun Modular Datacenter (Sun MD, known in the prototype phase as Project Blackbox) is a portable data center built into a standard 20-foot intermodal container (shipping container) manufactured and marketed by Sun Microsystems (acquired in 2010 by Oracle Corporation). An external chiller and power were required for the operation of a Sun MD. A data center of up to 280 servers could be rapidly deployed by shipping the container in a regular way to locations that might not be suitable for a building or another structure, and connecting it to the required infrastructure.[1] Sun stated that the system could be made operational for 1% of the cost of building a traditional data center.[2]

A Sun Modular Datacenter on display at the Sun Microsystems Executive Briefing Center in Menlo Park, California

History

The prototype was first announced as "Project Blackbox" in October 2006;[3] the official product was announced in January 2008.[4]

A Project Blackbox with 1088 Advanced Micro Devices Opteron processors ranked #412 on the June 2007 TOP500 list.[5]

Customers
The Internet Archive data facility

On 14 July 2007, the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) deployed a Sun MD containing 252 Sun Fire X2200 compute nodes as a compute farm.[6][7] Other customers include Radboud University.[8]

In March 2009, the Internet Archive migrated its digital archive into a Sun MD, hosted at Sun's Santa Clara headquarters campus,[9] a realization of a paper written by Archive employees in late 2003 proposing "an outdoor petabyte JBOD NAS box" of sufficient capacity to store the then-current Archive in a 40' shipping container.[10]

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gollark: Nope.
gollark: Anyway, then it displays the nice options menu of all the stuff you're allowed to do, and runs whatever you select.
gollark: ... what?
gollark: Anyway! The next bit of code checks that the OmniDisk's UUID (this is not the disk ID, this is added as part of the signed code when the disk is written) is in the list downloaded from the internet, and verifies the allowed permissions and stuff.

See also

References
  1. "Sun Modular Datacenter S20 - Technical Specifications". 2008-05-27. Archived from the original on February 26, 2009. Retrieved 2013-06-08.CS1 maint: unfit url (link)
  2. M. Mitchell Waldrop - "Data Center In a Box", Scientific American, August 2007
  3. "Sun Unveils The Future of Virtualized Datacenters – Project Blackbox" (Press release). Sun Microsystems, Inc. 2006-10-17. Archived from the original on March 1, 2007. Retrieved 2013-06-08.CS1 maint: unfit url (link)
  4. "Sun Modular Datacenter Fuels Momentum With New Customer Wins In Manufacturing, Healthcare, HPC And Telco". Sun Microsystems. 2008-01-29. Archived from the original on February 1, 2008. Retrieved 2013-06-08.CS1 maint: unfit url (link)
  5. "Sun Project Blackbox". TOP500 Supercomputing Sites. TOP500.org. June 2007. Archived from the original on 2008-08-03. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
  6. "SLAC Prepares for First Blackbox to Expand Computing Power". SLAC Today. 2007-06-20.
  7. "SLAC's Newest Computing Center Arrives... by Truck". SLAC Today. 2007-07-25.
  8. Rich Miller (2008-01-29). "Sun Rebrands Blackbox as 'Sun MD'". Data Center Knowledge. IDG TechNetwork. Archived from the original on 2008-06-05. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
  9. "Internet Archive and Sun Microsystems Create Living History of the Internet". Sun Microsystems. 2009-03-25. Archived from the original on March 26, 2009. Retrieved 2013-06-08.CS1 maint: unfit url (link)
  10. Bruce Baumgart; Matt Laue (2003-11-08). "Petabyte Box for Internet Archive" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-09-14. Retrieved 2013-06-08. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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