POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Dual Server Failure : Re: Dual Server Failure Server Time
29 Jul 2024 18:30:48 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Dual Server Failure  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 20 Jan 2012 12:02:15
Message: <4f199e17$1@news.povray.org>
On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:12:41 +0000, Invisible wrote:

>>> Pictures or it didn't happen. :-P
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRwPSFpLX8I perhaps?
> 
> ...the HELL?! o_O
> 
> 1. I had no idea they had this many computers.

It hit a number of the sites a couple years ago (see the date on the 
video)

> 2. I had no idea it required engineering on this scale to run that many
> computers.

You've got to manage them *somehow*, right?

> 3. That seems like quite a lot of empty space, actually...

You have to circulate air to keep things cool.  Overheating in such an 
environment could be a serious problem.

Jim


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