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Microsoft ran a pilot data center inside an unsealed tent[0] Minor blurb: > Inside the tent, we had five HP DL585s running Sandra from November 2007 to June 2
by fbdab103 3y ago
Microsoft ran a pilot data center inside an unsealed tent[0]
Minor blurb:
> Inside the tent, we had five HP DL585s running Sandra from November 2007 to June 2008 and we had ZERO failures or 100% uptime.
> In the meantime, there have been a few anecdotal incidents:
> Water dripped from the tent onto the rack. The server continued to run without incident.
> A windstorm blew a section of the fence onto the rack. Again, the servers continued to run.
> An itinerant leaf was sucked onto the server fascia. The server still ran without incident (see picture).
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