McMurdo station & more DATA CENTRE Locations

1.    We all keep reading on issues like heating when we discuss data centres......now with the problems that datacenters have with cooling, the Antarctic is perhaps the ideal site for such a facility....i thought that was a joke before i first read about this and saw the pics on site at here

2.     The station's datacentre is dedicated to supporting scientific work and running the station - with 64 servers and more than 2PB of storage connected to hundreds of desktops by a gigabit Ethernet network.McMurdo Station is the telecoms hub for science projects, field camps and operations in western Antarctica funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).To provide these services, it has a central telephone exchange and a wide spectrum of network, radio-frequency and satellite-communication systems.At the South Pole, every day up to 100GB of science data is transferred from the station to the US via satellite-communication links in support of multiple NSF-funded science projects.

3.    Thanks DIGIT.

Google & Carbon Dioxide : The relationship most of us don't know

1.   Now this again is something new that I came across. I certainly know about a typical data center and its long term cordial relation of janam janam with heat generation. Now what I came across new is something to do with statistical data about equivocalness and measurement of this heat connection with the Google hits.

2.    A recent study survey says that performing two Google searches from a desktop computer generates about 15 gm of Carbon Dioxide which tantamounts to boiling a kettle for a cup of tea. Isn’t it something nonplussing. Now I am sure you would read the sentence again. Meanwhile I will go ahead…… 

3.    So hunting in Google has a definite environmental wallop. So why is everyone after google…..y measure in terms of google hits …y not measure in terms of hits of http://anupriti.blogspot.com  Ha...ha ha….ha  …its simple because Google has the largest number of hits about 200 million global hits every day andhttp://anupriti.blogspot.com has only the author who reads……SIMPLE!!!!!!!!!!

 4.  Further in store is says that CO2 emanations caused by individual use of internet generates about 0.02 gm of CO2 per second. This increases by 10 fold to 0.2 gm of CO2 when viewing a website with complex images, animations or videos. 

5.  So what’s the worry folks…is their something to worry…….Yes I unfeignedly believe it’s a critical issue. The internet revolution has just begun in last 8-9 years and has a long way to go and if this is the beginning what’s in store ahead ???What now then?........let the brain techies think over it and we can just appreciate later……..thats what 99% of us belong to and do most of our lives………!!!!!!!!!!!!!!