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June 30, 2008 Article #20168 Volume 125, Issue 1 Hardware
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The module and pod designs takes into consideration the adaptation required in the ever changing business of computing.
Sun's Advanced Datacenter (Santa Clara, CA)
Hot Isle Containment and Pods Provide Efficience and Flexibility
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To run Sun’s award-winning data centers, a modular design containing many "pods" was implemented to save power and time. The modular design aids the building of any sized datacenter. Inside of each pod, there are 24 racks. Each of these 24 racks has a common cooling system as does every other modular building block. The number of pods is limited by the size of the datacenters. Large and small datacenters can benefit from using the pod approach.
A virtual tour of the datacenter is available.
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