Anyone heard of the Sun Microsystems Blackbox Project??

[Skylander7]

I got to tour one of these things today. It's basically a water-cooled mobile data center, designed to hold multiple racks and be deployable anywhere. The one that I looked at today was fully functional and filled with Sun servers. The racks themselves sit on shock absorbers, so the whole container can be dropped from helicopter or even C-130. The unit also requires a water chiller, which was in the front of the truck trailer in this instance. Air filter was in the back of the container, and condensation was expelled through a drain in the front of the rig and re-entered the water pipes. Cable management was in the ceiling, I gotta say.. it was actually kind of cool. I figured I would post it to share the experience, since this (to me) was like liquid cooling on a PC.. to an extreme level (and maybe interesting to somebody else). I saw one flaw in it (but didn't want to be an asshole to the guy and ask about it).. what if the radiator and pipes were to burst? There aren't any drains in the floor, although the level of water circulated in the system wouldn't be enough to exceed the height that the racks were raised up to from the floor.

Here's a YouTube virtual tour of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp3QxlSK9Kc

And here's Sun testing the shock absorption (can withstand a 6.0 earthquake!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HNGM-rje7U