On Monday 09 February 2009 21:37:23 David Mathog wrote: > The uber-pile is a bit of a straw man. I'm pretty sure that a 40U stack > of (typical) 1U or 2U servers would squish the one(s) on the bottom,
Absolutely. At Stanford, I took part in decommissioning a cluster the one I administered replaced, and the old 1U servers were recovered by the manufacturer. Part of the specification for the recovery was to store those 1U servers in pile no more than 5 high, to avoid damages on the lower ones in the piles. At about 35lbs a rack, it's a lot of weight to put on a single server when you pile 40 of those up... Cheers, -- Kilian _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
