It’s always interesting to get a glimpse inside other data centers. This week I came across several data center web sites offering worthwhile photo tours of their facilities:
MareNostrum: Recently featured on Digg as
The Most Beautiful Supercomputer in the World [1], MareNostrum is the most powerful supercomputer in Europe and ranked 13th in the world. It is built inside a former chapel at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, which provides a striking environment. In addition to the photo shown above, there are
photo [2] galleries [3] of the chapel interior.
Cork Internet Exchange: The
CIX web site [4] offers a detailed photo tour of the fit-out of their 3,000 square foot data center in Cork, which co-founder Tom Raftery says is the first data center in Ireland outside of Dublin. Raftery’s blog provides ongoing updates on the installation of equipment at the facility. Here’s something you don’t see every day: a cross-section view of the
cable connecting the diesel generator [5] to the switch, showing the four bundles of copper wrapped in steel within the cable.
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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URLs in this post:
[1] The Most Beautiful Supercomputer in the World: http://blogs.sun.com/simons/date/20070811
[2] photo: http://www.bsc.es/plantillaA.php?cat_id=124
[3] galleries: http://www.bsc.es/about-bsc/gallery
[4] CIX web site: http://www.cix.ie
[5] cable connecting the diesel generator: http://www.cix.ie/an-couple-of-interesting-factoids/
[6] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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