A little off topic for my blog, but deserves a special mention.  Ages ago I remember something about Google cramming portable data centres in a shipping container.  Can’t find any info on it though.

Anyway, I guess Sun bought it to market with their “Project Blackbox“.  It looks very impressive.  A single shipping container houses:

  • 146 teraflops
  • 2 Pb of storage
  • 9 Tb of memory

Some piccies are below:

 

Project Blackbox

Project Blackbox

Project Blackbox

If you want to know more check the Sun website. “Project Blackbox“