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Video: Inside Facebook’s Server Room
The server room at the new Facebook data center in Prineville, Oregon, featuring a hot aisle containment system. (Photo credit: Alan Brandt)
Facebook has published photos and schematics of the design of the servers and systems powering its new data center in Oregon. On Friday we got a look at the real thing, as the company opened the doors of its Prineville facility to a group of journalists and local officials. Facebook Director of Datacenter Engineering Jay Park provided a tour of the data center, which we’ll be presenting in two installments. Today’s video provides a look inside the data halls housing thousands of servers that power Facebook, including a closer look at the custom servers, racks and UPS units the company created for the facility. This video runs about 8 minutes.
See part two of our video tour, which looks at the custom cooling system Facebook created for the Prineville facility. For more about this data center, see our previous coverage:
- Facebook Unveils Custom Servers, Facility Design
- Facebook Opens Its Server, Data Center Designs
- Closer Look: Facebook’s Open Compute Servers
- Facebook Installs Solar Panels at New Data Center
- Will Open Compute Alter the Data Center Market
About Rich Miller
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.
Great video, very interesting and informative.
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Anton
Posted April 19th, 2011I must have missed something here, the servers are 94.5% efficient, but they still have a Harmonic at PF problem that they need to manage. I would like somebody to explain why they didn’t get a server with low harmonics and unity PF that way it would be even more efficient!
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Posted April 20th, 2011It’s really saddening to see that such ingenious technical solutions are being used for an average John Doe to be able to play Farmville.
Lennie
Posted April 20th, 2011What Google, Microsoft, Sun/Oracle, Yahoo and Facebook is doing is all still a little experimental.
When will this converge into something which will be sold to regular customers ?
My first thought was, why do the servers still have fans ? I’ve seen designs where the larger fans are outside the server and I wonder if it would be possible to put 2 servers in the that same 1.5 U enclosure.
Ohh, well, I guess it will take time.
Jack
Posted April 20th, 2011There are a few similar solutions on the market, one I’m familiar with is the ‘iDataplex’ system from IBM. That system puts up to ~80 low-power motherboards (think Laptop system boards) into a single cabinet with integrated cooling and power. Similar to this DC, they are low on redundancy features and meant to simply swap boards if there is a failure.
I’m sure Dell, HP and Sun have similar solutions.
I like the hot isle containment. This is difficult to implement in a retrofitted space with mixed hardware. Designing the entire data center from the ground up has its advantages.
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Posted November 29th, 2011interesting to see that some space does not need lighting…a place that no one has gone before but then still standing there…
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