[BBLISA] datacenter for compute cluster?

[stephen g. wadlow]

I used to have hosting there back in the post-harvardnet days, when I  
think it was hosting.com.

For being well built-out, they had a lot of failures.    They are/ 
were on both the Somerville and Charlestown powergrids, with diesel  
generators, and many racks having UPS backup on top of that, and even  
with that, they still ended up having the entire datacenter go dark  
on one, possibly two occasions.    They also built out with redundant  
fiber feeding the buildings, but the fiberpaths converged just  
outside the building, and the datacenter lost all network for a few  
days when the bigdig took out some of the fiber.

I'd *hope* that these problems have been fixed.   Unfortunately, that  
datacenter has changed hands -so- many times in the last 8 years that  
I'm a bit skeptical.
Let's see... Harvardnet, Allegiance Telecom, Hosting.com, Boston  
Datacenters, and now HostedSolutions.
I'm pretty sure XO had partial ownership for a while, and I'm sure  
that I'm forgetting at least one other ownership transition.

								-steve


On Jun 4, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:

> Hosted Solutions (www.hostedsolutions.com) has a nice data center  
> in the old Hood factory in Charlestown.  I've had a couple of  
> rackmount servers installed there for several years.  Reliable,  
> reasonable cost, industrial strength power/ac/backbone  
> connections.  Basic monitoring, reboot, and so forth is part of the  
> package.  24-hour access.  I've been pretty pleased.
>
> Sean Lutner wrote:
>> As mentioned, Savvis has their Bos3 facility open in Waltham and  
>> that is built out to ~150 watts/sq ft. The company I just left was  
>> hosted there and it's filling up fast.
>>
>> There is also a new data center opening in Sommerville in the next  
>> month or so called 2N+1 (http://www.2nplus1.com/). They will be  
>> offering up to 250 watts/sq ft. I toured the facility recently and  
>> it should be nice once complete and online.
>>
>> On Jun 4, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Chris Palmer wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Anyone know of a good datacenter within 128 for a compute  
>>> cluster?  I
>>> don't need especially redundant internet links or power, just  
>>> someplace
>>> I can get to if there's an outage, and decent power/cooling.
>>>
>>> Our computer cluster has outgrown our little was-an-office  
>>> machine room
>>> and needs cooler climes to survive the summer up and running.
>>>
>>> -Chris
>>>
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