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Bob Schilmoeller: My name is Bob Schilmoeller, I am on the project Blackbox team and I would like to show you around the Blackbox today.

Looking into the Blackbox itself, one of the cool things that we have actually done is, we put some sun SPOT sensors down in the lower part of the container as well as in the container itself on various racks in this such and this is to use to test for shock and vibe acceleration and also with temperature and humidity. One of the things that you want to figure out what happens to this as its gone in its tour, it gone for about seven and half weeks, then what we found is we ready and enabled about our 3.5G drop or vibration with this system. As we talk a little bit more, we will talk about some of the capabilities of the Blackbox with the shock and vibe.

So, the other thing I want to just talk about is the power, we have redundant power grids, so we have one on each side power panels with that, we can connect on the outside of the Blackbox, either side we can do two grids with that.

The other thing we have on the outside of the Blackbox is we have the network and we have the chilled water, we can again, it’s redundant on each side.

So, why don’t we look inside this first entry of the Blackbox? What you will see is, we have exposed an Air Plenum, where the air actually circulates through the Blackbox, project Blackbox that actually comes from one side, comes out of a rack that’s hot goes around, goes into a heat exchanger where its actually cooled with the chilled water from there the cool water goes into the next rack, it gets heated up with that rack of computers comes out and it’s the process is repeated.

We step inside the Blackbox, what we see is, at the top is the overhead cable management, we have room in the trays for many-many cables, hundreds of cables actually and from that cable tray it actually branches off into articulated cable trays that you can see that attached to each rack to manage the cables. So, as the rack is pulled out, the cables are kept nice and neat and kept inline as they are pulled out.

As I was mentioning on other end, we have the front to back air cooling, where the air is comes through a heat exchanger its cool that goes into the unit, into the rack that the air is heated from the systems goes into the next one is cool and it goes in a circular fashion.

OK, so to move out the racks, we have a rack service tool that we can just pullout into the isle and move from rack to rack, when its out in the isle we can actually change the lever and change in directions for the rack and roll up and down the isle for actually when we load the pay load in and we bring the rack in, we can fill a rack outside of the Blackbox, bring it in and use this tool to bring it down the isle and then we can change and roll it into its location.

So, once it’s in the location, we attach and run the cables from the cable management into the rack, if we need to service it, we can just put the lever in the other direction and lift the 1,200 pounds that we have within that rack and just pull the rack out. Once we pull the rack out, we have access to the servers and we can make any sorts of service repairs that we need to the actual equipment.