[LINK] Greening ICT

[Tom Koltai]

Re the Google Patent.

That's intereseting - I have Prior Art Circa 1998.
We used to call them PIAB's - Pop in a box.
Distributed them to remote towns where we didnt want the locals fiddling
with the pop.
Telstra were supplied keys and hooked in the E1's.
And somone had to run a lead to the power supply.
Self Contained AIR/UPS with Zeolite Heat Exhange Units.

Marvellous things. When we had a failure it was usually cheaper to to
send another unit than a person to repair the problem.

Invented in good old Sydney and Manufactured (well the rack/air) by MFB
and assembled by good old ISP Limited.
Damn - should have patented it internationally.

Tom


> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of 
> stephen at melbpc.org.au
> Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2009 6:51 PM
> To: link at anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Greening ICT
> 
> 
> Carl writes,
> 
> > "Data Centre in a 20ft Shipping Container" such as Sun's Project 
> > Blackbox (http://www.sun.com/products/sunmd/s20/index.jsp
> 
> Thanks Carl .. btw, Google were awarded a patent for this in 2007 ..
> 
> And, i still think little Aussie start-ups could make a mint 
> from this. Old, but good, containers are around a grand, 
> filled with multiple core 
> servers by one or two folks in backyard industries might be 
> gold mines?
> 
> One Microsoft data-center consists of 220 containers in a US 
> wharehouse.
> 
> Google's patent:
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?
> Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%
> 2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,278,273.PN.&OS=PN/7,278,273&RS
> =PN/7,278,27
> 3
> 
> > need another container full of support gear such as a UPS and water
> > chillers (and the cooling tower on the roof) to support it.
> 
> Hmm .. how about floating data centres, using water for power 
> and cooling?
> 
> Google were granted a patent for this six months ago ..
> 
> http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?
> Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%
> 2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220080209234%
> 22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20080209234&RS=DN/20080209234
> 
> 
> Google Planning Offshore Data Barges
> September 6th, 2008 : Rich Miller 
> 
> In a startling new take on data center engineering, Google 
> has filed a 
> patent for a "water-based data center" that uses the ocean to provide 
> power and cooling. The  patent also confirms Google's 
> development of a 
> container-based data center, describing "crane-removable modules" to 
> power the computing platforms.
> 
> The floating data centers would be located 3 to 7 miles from 
> shore, in 50 
> to 70 meters of water. If perfected, this approach could be 
> used to build 
> 40 megawatt data centers that don't require real estate or 
> property taxes.
> 
> The Google design incoporates the Pelamis Wave Energy 
> Converter units, 
> which use the motion of ocean surface waves to create 
> electricity and can 
> be combined to form "wave farms." The largest existing 
> project uses seven 
> Pelamis units to generate about 5 megawatts of power. 
> Diagrams included 
> with Google's patent application indicate the company plans 
> to combine 40 
> or more Pelamis units to produce 40 megawatts of power.
> 
> The patent documents describe a cooling system based on 
> sea-powered pumps 
> and  seawater-to-freshwater heat exchangers.
> 
> Google previously was granted a patent for a portable data 
> center inside 
> a shipping container, which the company began developing in 
> 2003, well 
> before Sun Microsystems and other competitors began unveiling 
> products 
> based on the "data center in a box" concept. One of the 
> inventors listed 
> on the Google patent, William Whitted, later said the portable data 
> center project had been discontinued.
> 
> The data centers may be employed with the computers inside standard 
> shipping containers to make them more portable (e.g., capable 
> of being 
> hauled to the boat or by a truck). The data centers may be 
> constructed 
> modularly in areas having low costs, and may be transported 
> to locations 
> needing communications support relatively quickly. The data 
> centers may 
> be offloaded to areas where a more permanent presence is 
> needed, and may 
> also be connected to the motion-powered machines after such 
> offloading, 
> freeing the ship to deploy to another area. Also, data 
> centers, when in 
> the form of shipping containers, may be quickly traded out when 
> technology changes. Modularization also makes maintenance simpler; 
> hardware that is corroded or worn out from the harsh salt water 
> environment can be easily replaced with fresh hardware by swapping 
> containers
> 
> Google says the data center containers could be stacked two 
> or more high, 
> so that each data barge could hold "12 or more" containers.
> 
> The patent filing says the data centers would be located 3 to 7 miles 
> offshore, which may signal that Google's interest in undersea 
> cables goes 
> beyond connectivity between land-based data centers. While 
> the floating 
> data centers would include power and cooling, they would 
> still require 
> industrial strength connectivity. Earlier this year Google 
> said it would 
> partner with five other companies in building an undersea 
> communications 
> cable across the Pacific, which could provide high-speed 
> connectivity to 
> new Google data centers in Asia.
> 
> The offshore location also differentiates Google's plans from those 
> announced by IDS, which plans to build up to 50 data centers 
> on de- commissioned cargo ships moored at piers in major cities.
> 
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/09/06/google-planning-
offshore-data-barges/

--

Cheers,
Stephen

Message sent using MelbPC WebMail Server





_______________________________________
No viruses found in this incoming message
Scanned by iolo AntiVirus 1.5.6.4
http://www.iolo.com