Michael Madigan wrote: > What's ridiculous is that many of these office > buildings don't allow a window to be opened. > > We had a room of about 150 computers in racks and > couldn't open a window in winter. Instead we had to > run portable air conditioners to cool the room. So it > was 90 inside, 20 outside and we couldn't just open > the window to expel the heat.
I toured the local University's Beowulf cluster a couple of weeks ago, and the guy in charge had an 'interesting' story about how they discovered that one of the temperature sensors in the room (there are four SUV-sized air conditioners in the room) was bad. A/C broke down on the first day the outside hit 90 and the sensor didn't detect it, so the machines kept running. The room baked within minutes. When they got into the room, they couldn't even touch the handle for the main power feed; it was so hot. All because of a thousand or so blade servers. :) Whil _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
