Sun Puts Data Center Through 6.7 Earthquake 195
An anonymous reader sent in a video clip showing Sun experimenting with shoving a data center through a simulated 6.7 Earthquake.
Everything stays running, but some power cords came out and some screws worked loose. It's still kind of neat to see a bunch of racks shake like a polaroid.
Fixy Linky Please? :) (Score:5, Funny)
Sweet, a link in a summary to the summary itself. Just what I've always wanted!
Re:Fixy Linky Please? :) (Score:3, Funny)
OH no, you know what that means? We all just RTFA. I think that signals the end of the world or something.
Re:TFS (Score:5, Funny)
Only on slashdot does this refer to server hardware.
(At Hooters, it refers to server software).
Re:Fixy Linky Please? :) (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fixy Linky Please? :) (Score:5, Funny)
Circular reference for nerds. Dupe optimization that matters.
Re:TFS (Score:5, Funny)
(At Hooters, it refers to server software).
Server firmware, please. Typically, embodied in silicon(e).
Re:Hard drives?? (Score:3, Funny)
Usually the ones that cost about $35k/terrabyte as opposed to the ones that cost $99/terrabyte at newegg.
Well, if it comes to earthquakes, terrabytes surely beat terabytes. After all, it's not a monsterquake! :-)
Re:"shake like a polaroid" ? (Score:5, Funny)
Come sit on your grandpa's knee and I'll tell you a story.
Long before you were born, back when I was just a lad and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, there was no such thing as "digital photo-graphy". The only way to capture an image of someone or something (or "steal their soul" as we called it back then) was to use a primitive device that would capture light reflected from the target and project it on to a chemical "film", which would end up with a copy of the image embedded into it.
Later, we would take this film to an old-fashioned building known as a "drug-store" (sort of like Amazon, but you had to drive there, and sometimes you even had to interact with other people in order to purchase goods and services). We would drop off our film, it would be sent off to a magic "photo development center", and transformed into a picture printed on special photo-graphic paper.
If for some reason you didn't want to wait, you could instead take a picture with a so-called "Polaroid insta-matic camera", which had self-developing film. You would take the picture, and within seconds it would come out of the camera. However, it would still take several seconds to fully develop. Many people thought shaking the picture made it develop faster, but of course that was just silly superstition. The real way to make it develop faster was to sacrifice a goat, but few people tried that, and so were stuck with slowly developing pictures.
Now, of course, everyone has these "digital photo-graphical machines" which make Polaroids obsolete, and so soon no one will know the simple joy of shaking a Polaroid picture.
Come back tomorrow, and I'll tell you about how we had to use "floppy disk-ettes" to transfer files from one computer to another, and how we were able to dodge saber-toothed tigers using 1/2-inch tape reels.
Re:Hard drives?? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Fixy Linky Please? :) (Score:5, Funny)
Re:slashdvertisements (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"shake like a polaroid" ? (Score:2, Funny)
Dry??? That's a myth equivalent to those who think snakes are slimy. Neither snakes nor polaroids are wet. Both are dry to the touch.
Mythbusters can prove that a snake is slimy...with explosives!!!
Re:Fixy Linky Please? :) (Score:1, Funny)
If an article links to itself but no one clicks it, is it still a dupe?
Re:Fixy Linky Please? :) (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, but you see, Grasshopper, to understand recursion, you must first understand recursion!
The real test... (Score:4, Funny)
http://www.kcra.com/cnn-news/19016582/detail.html [kcra.com]
Re:Old. (Score:4, Funny)
Anonymous just because I'm to lazy to login...
The way I read it, is that the data center as a whole stayed up and functional. I'm sure it's built with enough redundancy to maintain service through a failure of a few machines/drives/switches/etc...
Not every power cord came loose, the "system" compensated, and the box kept on serving.
Now they need to test what happens when the field tech is replacing a drive right when the earthquake hits. That should be some fun watching! Does he still get the drive replaced?
Let's find out!
Next sim needs crash test dummies (Score:2, Funny)