Project Blackbox

Project Blackbox

You’ll never look at an ordinary shipping container quite the same way again. Project Blackbox is a prototype of the world’s first virtualized datacenter–built into a shipping container and optimized to deliver extreme energy, space, and performance efficiencies. Project Blackbox applies Sun’s trademark innovation, network computing infrastructure and HPC expertise to engineer out complexity and provide a better datacenter. Project Blackbox, the world’s first fully contained, virtualized datacenter, delivers several unique advantages:

• Rapid, Easy Deployment: “Build once, deploy anywhere”
• Very High-density Computing: Capacity for over 700 CPUs, 2000 cores, or 8000 compute threads!
• Versatility and Flexibility: “What you want, where you want it, when you want it”.
• Breakthrough Economics and Eco Responsibility: scalability, use of standard components, cooling innovation, low cost to build, efficiency, and Sun’s recycling initiatives.

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