When i was in iceland some years ago for a long term meeting (no not the start of wikileaks - i was there for a less harmful reason) the thing happened i had feared - for some days when i was there half of the internet adresses in Europe mainland were impossible to reach from iceland. This happens regurarly from there.
I had taken the server lucky with me, thanks to www.hotels.nl for sponsoring that. Usually Icelanders have 7 jobs, have more chessgrandmasters per 100k inhabitants than any other nation; actually tomorrow i might play an icelander who emigrated to Europe. So the guy who's heading the new datacenter there is probably a busy man. Just read on... He'll first need to build a construction against the 3000+ small earthquakes a year Iceland has or so, then every component needed he needs to import of course; a fuse broken? In Iceland that's BAD news - they might not be in store in a cirlce of 1000 kilometer around you :) Then when something arrives at the airport, your datacenter equipment can travel over the only road the iceland has. Now if the datacenter is on that road that's rather good news. If not then probably you need to be so lucky it was very well packaged as at the rocky surface there everything trembles to pieces; probably that's why so many cars over there are using those massive wheels - when driving over small rocks you feel that a tad less; but even these cars have problems with rocky surfaces with say a 5CM rocks. Only some bigger trucks which they do not really have over there, can handle that - we have 1 such truck in Netherlands - it joins the big races. This for sure is gonna be the lowest reliability type datacenter, yet it would be typically icelandic for the guy with the 7 jobs putting the datacenter together to get something up and running there :) Yet for vulcanologists it's an interesting island. Maybe one of them is interested in visiting Iceland and pay 15 euro for a hamburger meal. Vincent On Apr 20, 2012, at 3:37 PM, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > Combine this article: > > "A Cool Place for Cheap Flops" > http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-04-11/ > a_cool_place_for_cheap_flops.html > > With this paper: > > "Relativistic Statistical Arbitrage" > dspace.mit.edu/openaccess-disseminate/1721.1/62859 > > And it's looks like Iceland has a new industry: Datacenters for the > high-frequency trading (HFT) gang. > > Just remember - you heard it here first, folks! ;) > > -- > Prentice > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin > Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
