Sun’s Blackbox Portable Datacenters

Sun is onto something really cool with their new Project Blackbox portable datacenters. The plan is to convert ordinary shipping containers into mobile datacenters that can be dropped into any location for customers that need to expand their capacity and data processing capabilities fast. These boxes are complete IT solutions that, fully maxed out, would place them within the list of the world’s top 200 supercomputers.

They offer:

• 250 x64-based servers with 1000 cores
• 1.5 petabytes of disk storage or 2 petabytes of energy-efficient tape storage
• 7 terabytes of memory
• Suport for up to 10,000 simultaneous desktop users
• Power and cooling to support 200 kilowatts of rackmounted equipment

Check out the movie over at the Project Blackbox site. It’s so impressive that I decided to max out all the credit cards and put one on order for the Crashpod offices. Even if we don’t need it for Crashpod version 5, I bet it would make a sweet gaming rig!