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The 2008 Olympic Data Center, Beijing Goes TRON

Dave_HH — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:08:03 GMT

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There's no question, the 2008 Olympics, to be held in Beijing China, are serious business. An of course, serious business needs serious compute, communications and storage power. For this year's Summer Olympic games, China certainly isn't messing around. In fact, the old American proverb, "go big or go home" seems to fit aptly.

Digital Beijing - The 2008 Olypmics Data Center
Source: Studio Pei-Zhu

Digital Beijing - The 2008 Olypmics Data Center
Source: Studio Pei-Zhu

"The concept for Digital Beijing was developed through reconsideration and reflection on the role of contemporary architecture in the information era. Resembling that omnipresent symbol, the bar code, the building emerges from a serene water surface. The façade itself is detailed to resemble an integrated circuit board. The abstracted mass of the building, reflecting the simple repetition of 0 and 1 in its alternation between void and solid, recreates on a monumental scale the microscopic underpinnings of life in the digital age to form a potent symbol of the Digital Olympics and the Digital Era. In the future, it is expected that the building will be constantly under renovation as it evolves to keep pace with technology."

RE: HotHardware and The Future of Storage

^Bad_Boy^ — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:46:44 GMT

Nice move HH !

Re: RE: HotHardware and The Future of Storage

digitaldd — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:20:23 GMT

Hopefully the section will cover all things data center specific not just storage. Storage is just a small part of what goes on in the data center. I for one find getting quality cabinets that have good built-in cable management and air flow are really hard to find at a reasonable price. Most of the cheaper cabinets have terrible air flow and have hotspots where they never seem to expell the hotter air even after you add chimney fans or add vented doors.

Re: Seagate Barracuda ES.2 1TB SAS Hard Drive

Venom — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:55:49 GMT

The only real differences between SAS and SATA interfaces is that SAS supports longer cable length, 10 meters vs 1 meter for SATA, and that SAS drives are mostly 10k or 15k RPM (thus much louder). SATA drives can be used with SAS controllers, but not the other way around. Both interfaces offer the same speed, although SAS interface spec uses higher voltage due to the increase max cable length. I've also never seen hot-swap SATA controllers, but it's pretty common for higher end servers to have hot-swappable SAS controllers.

SATA doesn't mean that the drive is a desktop drive, there are plenty of enteprise SATA drives which are usually 2.5 inches rather than the standard 3.5 for PCs.

Anyway, my thinking for why Seagate is releasing these drives is because it's not much more expensive to produce them over the SATA versions and it looks better to the CTO/CIO being a SAS rather than a SATA drive. :) Maybe the cable lenght limit of SATA has something to do with it also.

Re: RE: HotHardware and The Future of Storage

Venom — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:31:57 GMT

This should be interesting...

I've been reading more and more about startups doing distributed storage, similar to what google does with DFS. Other than that, SSDs should become pretty big in the enterprise (great for high transaction databases), but the technology is still too expensive and so far only EMC is a major player. I'm looking forward to what SSD tech evolves into.

Is this section also going to be about servers/datacenters or just storage?

Re: RE: HotHardware and The Future of Storage

amdcrankitup — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:22:14 GMT

[quote user="nelsoncp21"]

lol, "propellar head friends". we need a smiley like that!

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This stuff is a little over my head! No doubt

Maybe this will help!

Re: RE: HotHardware and The Future of Storage

Der Meister — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:55:29 GMT

Indeed

Re: RE: HotHardware and The Future of Storage

nelsoncp21 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:38:25 GMT

lol, "propellar head friends". we need a smiley like that!

RE: HotHardware and The Future of Storage

Dave_HH — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:44:11 GMT

Der, Nelson et al, find your propeller head friends and tell them to get in here! :) Where's Venom too?

Re: HotHardware and The Future of Storage

nelsoncp21 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:22:46 GMT

should be interesting. I am not an IT professional but have worked in many data centers and I am always curious as to the goings on there