Nice place.... Wonder what power vault looks like.... The one from my school we kinda keep away from for the good sence that is a thousand years old and odds are it will blow up -_-

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[QUOTE=moo]Nice place.... Wonder what power vault looks like.... The one from my school we kinda keep away from for the good sence that is a thousand years old and odds are it will blow up -_-[/QUOTE]

What you mean your building power system looks like this?

[url]http://www.alliedpaper.org/powerhouse3.html[/url]

This one is much neater.

[url]http://www.winona.edu/facilities/Switchgear.htm[/url]


And Moo I also think you will find "Subterranea Britannica" an interesting organisation. They go visiting many places underground, many of them secret installations ;-)

eg

[url]http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/s/swynnerton/[/url]

shows some switchgear.

Also browse ALL their adventures on the site ;-)

[url]http://www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/sites/[/url]

I am sure at least some of these would make a very nice datacentre for a farm.

Here is another of their trips to an underground hydro power station ....

[url]http://www.corestore.org/cullswitch.htm[/url]

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington_(UK[/url])

[url]http://www.freewebs.com/corshamsecrets/index.html[/url]

120ft below ground. 35 acres. 4000 people used to work there.

The best photos (from the MOD itself) can be found here:

[url]http://www.chocolatechipdesign.co.uk/nettleden/burlington/photos.shtml[/url]

[EDIT] Much more info at the BBC Wiltshire site:-

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/articles/2005/11/22/underground_city_interactive_map_feature.shtml[/url]

[QUOTE=Greenbank][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington_(UK[/url])

[url]http://www.freewebs.com/corshamsecrets/index.html[/url]

120ft below ground. 35 acres. 4000 people used to work there.

The best photos (from the MOD itself) can be found here:

[url]http://www.chocolatechipdesign.co.uk/nettleden/burlington/photos.shtml[/url]

[EDIT] Much more info at the BBC Wiltshire site:-

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/articles/2005/11/22/underground_city_interactive_map_feature.shtml[/url][/QUOTE]

Thanks Greenbank, yes "Burlington" is a very nice site. I have known of it for a long time and been to that location personally, and we have discussed it even on mersenneforum :-)

Nice photos, but that fisheye lens really does my head in.

wow i love that lock me down there for a few months and throw away the key -_-
[url]http://www.chocolatechipdesign.co.uk/nettleden/burlington/photos/site3_49.jpg[/url]
that place is just cool and those venting ducts are massive see the little guy next to the fan ;)

Would be great if it ran GIMPS : [url]http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/messiest-datacenter-ever[/url] :D

[QUOTE=victor]Would be great if it ran GIMPS : [url]http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/messiest-datacenter-ever[/url] :D[/QUOTE]

Yes, a pity it runs SETI at home currently.

Although I think the nice shelving disqualifies it from "most messy farm".

That was Shady Seti's farm, from Overclockers UK. It's been broken up now, though at one point it did consist of 50+ machines.

I don't have any pics, although I built a shelf/rack thing that houses 5 caseless machines. Will take some pics.

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Does this seem familiar to anyone here?

[url]www.ibm.com/takebackcontrol[/url]

Not that I'm a big fan of Xeon (rather have Opteron) but thought it was funny like a growing gimps farm.

Anyway, when someone consolidates where do all these servers go? Good for gimps?

[QUOTE=Peter Nelson]Anyway, when someone consolidates where do all these servers go? Good for gimps?[/QUOTE]They go to places like this - check the photos down the page.
[URL="http://stores.ebay.com.au/Reboot-PC-Logistics"]http://stores.ebay.com.au/Reboot-PC-Logistics[/URL]

[QUOTE=markr]They go to places like this - check the photos down the page.
[URL="http://stores.ebay.com.au/Reboot-PC-Logistics"]http://stores.ebay.com.au/Reboot-PC-Logistics[/URL][/QUOTE]

LOL that's probably where IBM got their servers for the ad. There are places like that in the UK too.

Just substitute (prime) "crunchers" for "servers". Like Help crunchers are taking over my dining room, and the garage. And they're in the bedroom! Oh no I can't find a spare power socket!