[SATLUG] Sun's Project Black Box

pixelnate pixelnate at gmail.com
Fri Dec 1 09:58:05 CST 2006


Dean McCall wrote:
>
>    * A single Project Blackbox could accommodate 250 Sun Fire T1000
>      servers with the CoolThreads technology
>      <http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t1000/> with 2000 cores
>      and 8000 simultaneous threads.
>    * A single Project Blackbox could accommodate 250 x64-based servers
>      with 1000 cores.
>    * A single Project Blackbox could provide as much as 1.5 petabytes
>      of disk storage or 2 petabytes of energy-efficient tape storage.
>    * A single Project Blackbox could provide 7 terabytes of memory.
>    * A single Project Blackbox could handle up to 10,000 simultaneous
>      desktop users.
>    * A single Project Blackbox currently has sufficient power and
>      cooling to support 200 kilowatts of rackmounted equipment.


Wow, you could have a CounterStrike:Source server with 10000+ players on 
the same map! Kewl.

~Nate



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