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Thursday Jun 28, 2007
A little bit of humor

From an email forwarded by a colleague

Cure for all 

Posted at 06:04PM Jun 28, 2007 by Zoram Thanga in Personal  |  Comments[9]

Monday Jun 25, 2007
SLAC is Blackbox's first customer!

A quick blurb. 

As someone who wanted to be a particle physicist (before I switched to computer science), this is one of the most exciting customer win stories I've read as a Sun employee: Stanford Gets First BlackBox! If you're wondering what a BlackBox is, it's basically a full-fledged data center housed in a "standard" shipping container, or a mobile data center. The fact that it's housed in a shipping container means that a BlackBox can be deployed anywhere with power, water (for cooling) and network connections. More details about the BlackBox can be found here.

Here's hoping that SLAC's new BlackBox will help in the discovery of new physics and particles (Quarks were first discovered at SLAC)!

Posted at 11:57AM Jun 25, 2007 by Zoram Thanga in Science  |  Comments[1]