Comments on: Wild New Design: Data Center in A Silo

By: Cordless Phone Reviews

Cordless Phone Reviews — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 01:18:11 +0000

Interesting, and are all the silos above ground? Perhaps the coil system is more eco-friendly indeed… I wonder if the servers sound louder in silos?

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Wild New Design: Data Center in A Silo » Data Center Knowledge « coldaisle — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:40:36 +0000

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By: Ten Unique Data Center Designs | Devendra's

Ten Unique Data Center Designs | Devendra's — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 10:11:43 +0000

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By: jimbonics

jimbonics — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:51:14 +0000

Master Control Panel.

By: K850i

K850i — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:25:50 +0000

That’s a really good “out of the box” thinking design. Maybe they can do the same here in the UK and save some energy in the process.

By: Waite Ave

Waite Ave — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:45:08 +0000

Although the video states that the bar has been raised when constructing data centers or clusters, I beg to differ. Besides the obvious of having equal cable lengths (not new, CRAY has been doing this for years) a fundamental flaw with the design…..

- Cooling is not at the “U” level. Temperature gradients within each rack still exists. In fact, I would suspect that the top level nodes are hotter than nodes lower in the infrastructure.

Lastly, re-claiming or re-using Silos has no value here. The cost of building new structures would be lower than trying to use a corn or bean drying silo.
Not to mention the cost of putting sufficient power to remote locations……

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:51:57 +0000

I wonder if the cost of building these silos from scratch would be any better than just building the typical warehouse style datacenter, which would allow more room for one. I also agree with putting them in the higher region of the silo as opposed to the bottom.

I’m sure there are plenty of other abandoned war facilities that would be equaly useful for a datacentre, but as Thom suggested they are all probably in the middle of nowhere. Although I’m sure there are dozens of paranoid admins who would love that idea!

By: NCHPC » Blog Archive » What to do with an old nuclear silo?

NCHPC » Blog Archive » What to do with an old nuclear silo? — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:03:43 +0000

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By: A Data Center in a Silo « UNIX Administratosphere

A Data Center in a Silo « UNIX Administratosphere — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:02:38 +0000

[...] new CLUMEQ Collossus (as the Quebec installation is called) was described in an article in Data Center Knowledge. The design has all of the computers (Sun blades) are in a circle with the [...]

By: Jole

Jole — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:38:13 +0000

A pretty cool design if you are stuck having to work with short Infiniband runs – although wonder how necessary that will be when 10Gig-E finally becomes the dominant networking technology in a few more years. As other folks have commented … seems like a pretty darned inefficient use of space – square pegs(racks) in a round hole(silo).

At least people in colder climes are starting to use outdoor cold air to their benefit. Nothing rocket science, but really good to see we are finally on the path to more efficient datacenter cooling designs.