Thought I'd share this photo with you all

[DR]

So we've a fair bit of kit in the office (we have multiple things we run - www.themediateam.net)

- HEXUS
- BOXFX
- bit-tech
- PC-Max (Germany)

.... and often people ask what kit we run - we've a chunk of kit in Telehouse, and we've some kit in our office for backups / rendering.

Thought you'd all like it - check it out.



We have in front of you 96 Dual Xeon Blade Servers (Dual Quad Core) with 8GB ram per node.

and a bucket load of other kit.

[Apex]

You running 10gig ethernet in any of that ?

[DR]

You running 10gig ethernet in any of that ?

Everything is running on Gig - with a 10gig Fibre link to upstairs - we "only" have a 100mbit Leased line... .

A few of the servers have bonded Gigabit connections between them and the switches to give speed across the network

[Apex]

Shinys...... Only asking due to us slowly putting this in the DC (think theres a handful with it) and wanted to gauge what others thought of the kit etc

[Rob_B]

Oooohh shiny...

But seriously, sort out that cable management

[kalniel]

I suppose this could turn into a 'my datacentre's bigger than your datacentre' thread so I'll try not to comment, other than it's nice to get a look at the backend - thanks!

[DR]

I suppose this could turn into a 'my datacentre's bigger than your datacentre' thread so I'll try not to comment, other than it's nice to get a look at the backend - thanks!

Oh there will be loads with more kit than us - without doubt.

We often get asked about behind the scenes bits and bobs so thought I'd share

[chuckskull]

No benchmarks? You're slipping Dave

Bet it gets toasty in there what's the cooling like?

[DR]

No benchmarks? You're slipping Dave

Bet it gets toasty in there what's the cooling like?

Benchmarks? tsk.... Depends what we are rendering on the farm.

So cooling, good question we have had a bit of a challenge with it - due to the thermal density in the room.

Solution... simples.

We have 2 huge 10KW A/C's in the room which cools the room - behind each of the blades is some chunky metal ducting which sucks all the hot air and flushes out of an extractor - we are warming up St Albans. There is no point trying to fight it may as well get it out of the room.

We have a hot box so the back of the cabinets is enclosed - and helps keep the heat in one place so we can remove it.

The room isn't huge - so that's the headache we've had to deal with.

[tomasz]

No benchmarks? You're slipping Dave

Bet it gets toasty in there what's the cooling like?

You could use it to warm the rest of the building, especially on a day like today.

[DR]

You could use it to warm the rest of the building, especially on a day like today.

Challenge is the 2 foot thick concrete floor between the upstairs and downstairs

[Zak33]

I run up and down stairs with alternate buckets of hot and cold air

it's a challenge but without me doing that... nothing works

[DR]

Yes Zak you're hired

[GoNz0]

So we've a fair bit of kit in the office (we have multiple things we run - www.themediateam.net)

- HEXUS
- BOXFX
- bit-tech
- PC-Max (Germany)

.... and often people ask what kit we run - we've a chunk of kit in Telehouse, and we've some kit in our office for backups / rendering.

Thought you'd all like it - check it out.



We have in front of you 96 Dual Xeon Blade Servers (Dual Quad Core) with 8GB ram per node.

and a bucket load of other kit.

Lets drag this thread up in 20 years (if I am alive) and see if tech has moved on so much that our phones are more powerful

[Ferral]

Has to be said yet again......

But can it run Crysis?!

Man that is one slick setup

[Andy3536]

Am i being dumb? I'm sure the thread title suggests i'm supposed to see a photo......