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  Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: But for the commodity model to work, contends Hamilton, the commodity components will need to be combined into a meticulously engineered system that achieves high power, reliability, and efficiency - a data center in a box, or, more precisely, a data center in a container. The portability of a containerized data center, Hamilton further argues, will allow for a utility operation to be based on a network of smaller data centers, deployed in many different places, which he believes will offer social and political advantages over large, monolithic centers. (via Cosmos)

Lab Soft News: Whereas the focus of those organizations running traditional business-computing operations is cost cutting through consolidation, the focus of those operating the new mega computing operations (like Google, say) is achieving efficiency at massive computing scale (through, for instance, reducing electricity consumption). There's a fundamental split opening up in the market, in other words: two very different sets of customers (one with stagnant demand and one with burgeoning demand) with very different needs. (via Cosmos)

A Simple Matter of Software: Use those online services that are proven and stable and reduce risk and distraction. Don't dive in to use some shaky beta on-line service, if that service is just part of your machinery and is not changing what you can offer to your customers. (via Cosmos)

Technology and Geopolitics: Since that time, Ihave had many emails asking “have youstopped blogging?” and “have youfound a job?” The answer to thefirst question is I have committed an enormous amount of time to developing anew business plan for a new startup that a team I am part of is trying to get funded. I actually feel as if I have returned toduty, hence the title of this post. (via Cosmos)

  The Life of Araquan Skytracer (Volume III): There are SunSPOT (Sun Small Programmable Object Technology) modules in various places throughout the interior to monitor the environment and provide GPS information- you can see two of them zip-tied to the cable tray structure above the slid-out rack. I'm told that if you want to buy one of these wonders for yourself, the base price will be $300,000. (via Cosmos)

  Planet GNOME: Of course, by the time anyone found that out, the media were in a feeding frenzy.Apparently, tsunami warnings get issued several times a week in various places whenever there is a rumble somewhere in the hemisphere. It is supposedly followed on the danger scale by tsunami alert and then tsunami alarm. (via Cosmos)

  Data Center Knowledge: Data centers, design, power, cooling: (RACK) this week announced the first sale of its new Concentro portable data center product to "one of the world's leading Internet companies." Concentro is a data center housed in a 40-foot by 8-foot shipping container, and can support high-density installations of up to 9,600 processing cores. Rackable, which specializes in high-density rackmount servers, is positioning Concerto as a solution for enterprises who need to expand their data centers, add disaster recovery, or "completely replace new brick-and-mortar data center construction." The new product from Rackable will mean competition for Sun's Project Blackbox in the market for portable data centers. (via Cosmos)

  SplaTT's Weblog - A collection of random ramblings on technology, marketing, culture and all things geek...: "...a self-contained, fully portable data center featuring extreme server and storage density with highly efficient cooling and easy serviceability. Designed to augment or replace traditional brick-and-mortar data centers of any size, Concentro features compute density levels of up to 9600 cores in a 40' x 8' container, or up to 3.5 petabytes of storage for maximum density per square foot." (via Cosmos)

 [Roughtype.com] Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Trailer park computing: UPDATE: Dan Farber covers the launch of the Blackbox, while Jonathan Schwartz makes Sun's marketing pitch and Greg Papadopoulos puts the machine into the context of data-center evolution. Blackfriars calls it "the ultimate computing commoditization play," saying it "changes the economics" of data center construction.

 [Blogs.sun.com] Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog : Weblog: In a grid, a conventional network is used to connect collections of smaller*, general purpose elements (like Sun's Niagara or Galaxy systems). The question of "what's the biggest grid?" has no obvious answer - they can be as big as you want.

[Hoise.com] monthly200703: Wait a few seconds to go to the homepage of the HPCN and Grid computing news magazine Primeur/EnterTheGrid

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