[Beowulf] Fwd: Project Natick

[John Hearns]

The report interestingly makes a comparison to cruise lines and the US Navy
having large IT infrastructures at sea.
I guess cruise ships of course have servers plus satcomms, as do warships.
But the thought of the SOSUS sonar chain comes to mind... then again those
electronics will be down a lot deeper than this.
Though I am sure a few racks of FPGAs near your SOSUS listening devices
would be good...

Going wildly off topic as usual this book
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/08/us/a-tale-of-daring-american-submarine-espionage.html
about Operation Ivy Bells is fantastic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ivy_Bells





On 7 June 2018 at 17:26, Joe Landman <joe.landman at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 06/07/2018 11:18 AM, Douglas Eadline wrote:
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>>   -snip-
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>>> i'm not sure i see a point in all this anyhow, it's a neat science
>>> experiment, but what's the ROI on sinking a container full of servers
>>> vs just pumping cold seawater from 100ft down
>>>
>>> I had the same thought. You could even do a salt water/clear water
>> heat exchange and not have the salt water near the servers.
>>
>>  From a risk perspective, failure under 100 ft of sea water
>> would seem to much more catastrophic vs failure on land and
>> cooling with pumped water (maybe I read too much N.N. Taleb).
>>
>
> Imagine 100kW or so ... suddenly discovering that the neat little hole in
> the pipe enables this highly conductive ionic fluid to short ... somewhere
> between 1V and 12V DC.  10's to 100's of thousands of Amps.  I wouldn't
> wanna be anywhere near that when it lets go.
>
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