Inside the Lucasfilm datacenter 137
passthecrackpipe writes "Where can you find a (rhetorical) 11.38 petabits per second bandwidth? It appears to be inside the Lucasfilm Datacenter. At least, that is the headline figure mentioned in this report on a tour of the datacenter. The story is a bit light on the down-and-dirty details, but mentions a 10 gig ethernet backbone (adding up the bandwidth of a load of network connections seems to be how they derived the 11.38 petabits p/s figure. In that case, I have a 45 gig network at home.) Power utilization is a key differentiator when buying hardware, a "legacy" cycle of a couple of months, and 300TB of storage in a 10.000 square foot datacenter. To me, the story comes across as somewhat hyped up — "look at us, we have a large datacenter" kind of thing, "look how cool we are". Over the last couple of years, I have been in many datacenters, for banks, pharma and large enterprise to name a few, that have somewhat larger and more complex setups."
Meh....SDSC has 2 PetaBytes of online storage (Score:4, Informative)
Still....I like datacenters. The hum of equipment. 65 degree temps and lower. I once had my cube re-located to a tape library. Quiet...peaceful place
http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/hardware/fe
10.000 square foot datacenter is SMALL (Score:3, Informative)
Hardly a coincidence (Score:2, Informative)
Bullshit or Calculation Error : 569 NICs/server ! (Score:2, Informative)
11.38 Pbps is 11380 Tbps or 11380000 Gbps. This means that each
server has 569 network interfaces !! This is total bullshit. If
they had said they had 10*2000*2 = 40 Tbps, it would have been
based on more real (though irrelevant) data.
I hate it when ignorant journalists post meaningless data for public
consumption.
Willy