Project Blackbox
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Project Blackbox is a prototype from Sun Microsystems for a data center built into a standard 20' shipping container. It was first announced in October 2006. Utilizing existing infrastructure of transporting shipping containers, a large amount of computer equipment or a complete data center can be rapidly deployed to locations that might not otherwise be suitable for a building or another structure.
This concept of a datacenter in a shipping container originated at the Internet Archive circa 2003 in collaboration with IBM Almaden Research Center.
[edit] External links
- Project Blackbox Site
- Project Blackbox Photos
- Project Blackbox Blog
- The data center in a shipping container as described by the Internet Archive 'to drum up interest in this concept' (November 8th, 2003).
- Architecture for Modular Data Centers proposed by James Hamilton (Architect on the Windows Live Core team, Microsoft)
- Robert X. Cringely writing about Google-Mart on November 17th, 2005: "There, in a secret area off-limits even to regular GoogleFolk, is a shipping container. But it isn't just any shipping container. This shipping container is a prototype data center. [..] Didn't Sun recently establish some kind of partnership with Google?"
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