[Beowulf] removing tiles around heavy racks?

[Bruce Allen]

The floor rating may be relevant.  Typical 'concor' floors made by Tate 
Access Flooring have point load ratings of 1250, 1500, or 2000 pounds.

Since this is a safety issue, I suggest you contact the floor manufacturer 
and ask their engineers directly.  I wouldn't trust any response that you 
get from this newsgroup as definitive.

Cheers,
 	Bruce



On Tue, 3 Jan 2006, Mark Hahn wrote:

> around a heavy rack, how many floor tiles can you safely remove?
>
> I'm about to embark on a large installation: compute racks will contain
> 38 1U servers and so weigh ~1500 lbs each.  the network (Quadrics) will
> be installed first, before rolling in the compute racks.  partly for
> space reasons, but also because it doesn't seem safe to have a bunch
> of 1500 lbs racks surrounded by a sea of missing tiles...
>
> but it would be good to know what the threshold is - how many tiles
> you can remove around a heavy rack before becoming crazily risky...
> any horror stories?  ;)
>
> thanks, mark hahn.
> PS: 16" over slab, feet glued, stringers screwed-on, composite tiles.
>
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