Need ball park power and cooling requirements

Dean Johnson dtj at uberh4x0r.org
Wed Oct 2 06:52:43 PDT 2002


On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 07:30, Ray Muno wrote:
> 
> As many people have pointed out in the past, the facilities costs, many
> time overlooked in the planning stage, are a significant share of the cost
> of housing a large installation of computers.  
> 

And the cost isn't always monetary, especially in large organizations.
Getting the whole facilities aspect taken care of can take quite a
while, especially if your facilities of pre-computer vintage. Getting
the cooling upgraded is often quite painful as it is often the most
inadequate requirement for a reasonably sized cluster and requires lots
of building abuse (ie. drilling big holes in floors and such).

	-Dean




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