Alan wrote: > Rachel Garrett wrote: > > > >I wonder: what is the optimal ratio of computing power to coffee > >machines? E.g., for an ISP with 500 servers, how many coffee makers > >does it take to sustain the required number of technicians at an > >appropriate level of alertness? > > One, but it has to be one of those $5000 dollar stainless steel and > bronze Italian ones with more dials and gauges than the reactor room of > a nuclear sub.
Do you mean the control room (also called the Enclosed Operating Station) or the Reactor Compartment, where the reactor itself is kept? If you mean the former, you can find a good picture of one here: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/images/rand.jpg The caption reads: Scientists from RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a "home computer" could look in the year 2004. However the needed technology will not be economically feasible for the average home. Also the scientists readily admit that the computer will require not yet invented technology to actually work, but 50 years from now scientific progress is expected to solve these problems. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
