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OK. If you don't think this is cool, you ought to think again

Now, I am no datacenter expert, but do get the opportunity to work with some every now and then. With today's announcement, I wanted to see for myself what the fuss is all about. First I checked out the cool but brief technical chat between John Gage and Marc Tremblay, the Chief Architect of the new UltraSPARC T1 processor. I highly recommend spending 8 minutes to listen to these two guys talk about what's cool about UltraSPARC T1 (click on the "Technical Video". Anyway, while browsing around, one thing caught my eye: a cool Java application to simulate data center configuration by dragging and dropping different rack systems and to see for yourself what the impact of different configuration is on your data center in terms of space, power, cooling, throughput and of course the dollar cost. (Note to the simulator developers: You have to make this tool more visible, link to it from the sidebar on the main page). There is also a power calculator, but that is not as cool as the data center simulator.

Anyway, I just tried to build a data center out of the box and here is the comparative picture.

Now, that is cool! Go see for yourself.

PS: Spanish translations by AltaVista. [No hablo español. Deseo que lo hice.]

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