Sun’s Project Blackbox: Datacenter in a Box
Sun Microsystems has unveiled Project Blackbox, a systems innovation designed to reset datacenter economics. Project Blackbox packages compute, storage and network infrastructure, along with high-efficiency power and cooling into modular units based on standard shipping containers. The Project Blackbox prototype is designed to be rapidly and flexibly deployed anytime, anywhere.
The Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) is at the core of the Blackbox’s virtualized infrastructure — from one-way servers to high performance computing environments delivering 146 Teraflops. Harnessing the power of the Solaris 10 OS coupled with Sun server and storage technologies, one Blackbox could hold 250 Sun Fire servers, provide 2 Petabytes of storage, or provide 9 Terabytes of memory. One Blackbox has enough power to rank in the top 200 supercomputers in the world.
Project Blackbox is currently in the late prototype phase. Sun has begun working with early customers, with early commercial availability slated for mid-2007. View more images of Project Blackbox
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