[BBLISA] datacenter for compute cluster?

[stephen g. wadlow]

On Jun 4, 2008, at 2:55 PM, Jeff Wasilko wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 02:02:42PM -0400, Chris Palmer wrote:
>>
>>
>> Anyone know of a good datacenter within 128 for a compute cluster?  I
>> don't need especially redundant internet links or power, just  
>> someplace
>> I can get to if there's an outage, and decent power/cooling.
>
> Savvis is in the midst of opening up a 3rd datacenter in Waltham.
> They're building it for 150w/sq foot, which is light for a compute
> cluster....
>
> Not sure if you can find denser power in Boston though.

And if you don't need redundant internet links or power, then Savvis  
is a good choice.   :)

150w/sq foot is a pretty good density for this area, sadly.   I  
suspect that they're going that route because their other datacenters  
are only partially full, and have (in the past at least) been tapped  
out for power.   I also know a few too many people who've been  
screwed by having Savvis-only bandwidth in the datacenter.   They  
managed poorly with a big AT&T (one of their main bandwidth  
providers)  outage about 18 months ago, a lot of their customers were  
off the net for ~1-2 days.    Not something I expect from a datacenter.

						-steve