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Don't Mess With Sun

by Tom Conlon on June 12, 2007 at 01:52 PM

Moving your company to cheap new office space in downtown Baghdad? Sun Microsystems has you covered with Project Blackbox, a prototype datacenter built inside of a giant metal shipping container. It's a 'portable,' instant computing infrastructure (space for up to 500 CPUs) that can be quickly and easily deployed anywhere.

And it's no coincidence that this monster shares its name with the indestructible flight recorder used on planes. Just witness this fairly dated, but nonetheless amazing video in which Sun subjects its Blackbox to a magnitude 6.7 earthquake on a simulator in Northridge, CA. It survives with just a few bumps and bruises. More importantly, it keeps running, with just a few failures technicians chalk up to power cords shaking loose (skip to about halfway through the video).

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