On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 18:27:05 +0000, you wrote: > Im not sure theres a huge population of Xcloud-Xbox gamers in Orkney. > There's not much daylight this time of year, of course, so maybe that's what > those Orcadians are up to.
Likely just a convenient place for a second test unit. In a way this is just an extension of the idea/product Sun came up wth where they put a datacentre in a shipping container with the idea that you could quickly get the datacentre where it was needed. While I wouldn't say this won't fail, I think there is a lot of attraction to the concept given not just the time lag do build a traditional data centre (mentioned in the article), but even the cost of real estate in many/most places people live these days. Do you, for one example, want to pay NYC rents or just throw a bunch of pods in the Hudson? I guess once you accept the idea that we no longer maintain these datacentres in the traditional way - we now just let hardware fail in place and ignore it until it's time to replace all the hardware - moving to smaller sealed units doesn't seem to strange. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
