Comments on: The rack unit: U https://www.iiclouds.org/20140911/the-rack-unit-u/ A joint design research project (HES-SO) between ECAL, HEAD, EPFL-ECAL Lab & EPFL Sun, 28 Feb 2016 14:35:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 By: Moving clouds: International transportation standards https://www.iiclouds.org/20140911/the-rack-unit-u/#comment-69 Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:50:39 +0000 http://www.iiclouds.org/?p=3691#comment-69 […] point of this research Patrick Keller already wrote two posts on hardware standards and measures: The Rack Unit and the EIC /ECIA Standards (other articles including technical overview are the 19 Inch Rack & […]

]]> By: Setting up our own (small size) personal cloud infrastructure. Part #3, documenting the “black box” https://www.iiclouds.org/20140911/the-rack-unit-u/#comment-55 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:08:32 +0000 http://www.iiclouds.org/?p=3691#comment-55 […] equipment including the holding frame. The heights of our cabinet is middle size and composed of 16 Rack Units (16 U). Very typical size for a computer cabinet  is 42U. A rack unit (U) is 1.75 inches (or 4,445 […]

]]> By: Setting up our own (small size) cloud infrastructure. Part #2 https://www.iiclouds.org/20140911/the-rack-unit-u/#comment-30 Sun, 02 Nov 2014 23:13:11 +0000 http://www.iiclouds.org/?p=3691#comment-30 […] kept to set up our “data center” are therefore the normative approach of the U and the 19″ rack cabinet. The idea of redundancy of both hardware (RAID disks) and data is […]

]]> By: Setting up our own (small size) cloud infrastructure. Part #1 https://www.iiclouds.org/20140911/the-rack-unit-u/#comment-26 Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:49:44 +0000 http://www.iiclouds.org/?p=3691#comment-26 […] and improved small ones. Our data center should use therefore existing norms (physical: the “U“, rack and servers’ cabinet units), air (or water) circulation to cool the servers, […]

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