Monday March 26, 2007 
Look Familiar? Rackable Concentro on the left has servers facing the aisle while Sun's Black Box turns them sideways.
Rackable Systems is joining the mobile data center parade. The Bay Area company is rolling out its first "Concentro" mobile data center on March 26, which will compete with Sun Microsystems' Project Blackbox, which Sun unveiled in October. Rackable's mobile shipping container, which the company dubbed Concentro, is a 40-foot by 8-foot mobile data center with the capacity to hold up to 1,200 of company's rack-mount 1U (1.75-inch) servers. Full Story
Meanwhile, today's Where is Project Blackbox blog has an interesting description of the container's innovative cooling system.
Posted by redbeetle [HPC Article of the Day] ( March 26, 2007 08:56 AM ) PermalinkComments:
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