Sun's Project Blackbox - A Datacentre in a Shipping Container

Sun is building datacentres inside shipping containers. They are water cooled, densely packed with Sun servers and super portable. So you can easily move it to where it's needed or where energy is cheapest.

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. - Sun

The Project Blackbox prototype is a computing powerhouse capable of hosting a configuration that would place it among the top 200 fastest supercomputers globally. The current prototype could support the following capacities:

• A single Project Blackbox could accommodate 250 Sun Fire T1000 servers with the CoolThreads technology with 2000 cores and 8000 simultaneous threads.
  
• A single Project Blackbox could accommodate 250 x64-based servers with 1000 cores.
  
• A single Project Blackbox could provide as much as 1.5 petabytes of disk storage or 2 petabytes of energy-efficient tape storage.
  
• A single Project Blackbox could provide 7 terabytes of memory.
  
• A single Project Blackbox could handle up to 10,000 simultaneous desktop users.
  
• A single Project Blackbox currently has sufficient power and cooling to support 200 kilowatts of rackmounted equipment.
  

more info:
http://www.sun.com/emrkt/blackbox/index.jsp
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