On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 04:55:03PM +0200, John Hearns via Beowulf wrote: > Reading into this a bit more on the Microsoft site, the intention is to > power these things using renewables such as wind or tidal power. > I've never been to Orkney, but as it famously has no trees ther eis plenty > of wind I am sure... > > Might make sense actually as they say for remote communities. > The cynic in me says why in the heck would a remote community NEED 12 or > more racks of servers, but this wont be for local use. > It makes sense in terms of having free cost power (OK - I know the true > cost is the construction of a wind turbine or two) and free cost cooling. > The total power is 240kW which is a respectable amount of power - not as > dense as big HPC installations these days, but pretty respectable.
I maybe will read the source article if I find time, but from words of those who read it, it is basically: computer + salt water + wind turbine + Microsoft I suggest it will not go anywhere and is in fact some kind of marketing stunt. But I will wait a year and see if there is a reason to change my opinion. > One sincerely hopes that if things like this do get deployed in the ocean > then the steel module, the wind turbine and the servers are recycled at the > end of life and not just abandoned. Yeah. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:[email protected] ** _______________________________________________ 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
