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Sun's Cloud Chilling at Vegas SuperNAP

Posted By Rich Miller On June 17, 2009 @ 2:58 pm In Data Center Videos,Sun Microsystems,Switch SuperNAPs | 1 Comment

What lies ahead for the Sun Open Cloud Platform [1] unveiled in March? That will likely be a decision for Oracle Systems (ORCL), which has agreed to acquire Sun Microsystems [2] (JAVA) for $7.4 billion, with the deal is expected to close this summer. Until then, the Sun Cloud is chilling in the SuperNAP in Las Vegas, where its servers are housed in one of Switch Communciations’ custom high-density computing pods known as a T-SCIF [3] (short for Thermal Separate Compartment in Facility). We had a look at the Sun installation during a recent tour of the SuperNAP [4]. The racks are packed top to bottom with servers, creating a power load of up to 24 kW per rack. This video from Sun provides an inside look at the company’s operation at the SuperNAP and the cooling systems that manage that density for the Sun cloud platform. This video runs about 5 minutes.

For additional information, check out our SuperNAP Channel [5] and Sun Microsystems Channel [6]. For additional video, check out our DCK video archive [7] and the Data Center Videos [8]channel on YouTube.

About Rich Miller [9]

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] Sun Open Cloud Platform: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/03/18/sun-outlines-plans-for-open-cloud-platform/

[2] acquire Sun Microsystems: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/04/20/oracle-agrees-to-buy-sun-for-74-billion/

[3] T-SCIF: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/08/11/a-closer-look-at-the-networkcom-t-scif/

[4] tour of the SuperNAP: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/05/21/custom-infrastructure-powers-supernap/

[5] SuperNAP Channel: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/category/switch-communications/

[6] Sun Microsystems Channel: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/category/sun-microsystems/

[7] DCK video archive: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/data_center_videos-index.html

[8] Data Center Videos : http://www.youtube.com/user/DataCenterVideos

[9] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/

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