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The Case for Robotic Data Centers

The Case for Robotic Data Centers. David Meisner and Thomas Wenisch University of Michigan Wild And Crazy Ideas (WACI) 2010 Presented by: David Meisner. A long time ago in a data center far, far away…. The LucasFilm data center ‘cleaning crew’. What else can robots do?.

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The Case for Robotic Data Centers

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  1. The Case for Robotic Data Centers David Meisner and Thomas Wenisch University of Michigan Wild And Crazy Ideas (WACI) 2010 Presented by: David Meisner

  2. A long time ago in a data center far, far away… The LucasFilm data center ‘cleaning crew’

  3. What else can robots do? • The reason data centers exist is for physical collocation • Important for networking, security, and maintenance Why not take advantage of this physical proximity?

  4. Data Center SneakerNet Ethernet Bandwidth: 1Gb/s Robot Bandwidth: 2,155Gb/s

  5. Robot Sort New programming paradigm? Map – Robot Shuffle - Reduce

  6. Warehouse robots Racks can be moved by robots…

  7. Extreme Reconfigurable Computing Storage Resources Computation Resources Move the computation to the data! Literally.

  8. Other data center issues • A number of practical issues: • Cooling • Repair and Maintenance • Safety • Security • Fire Regulation Many of these problems because of pesky humans!

  9. Cooling: Extreme Infrastructure Air – 1.0 J/(gk) Helium – 5.2 J/(gk)

  10. Maintenance: Things break.Who will fix it?

  11. Security…

  12. How crazy is this? Robots have done some of this before

  13. Thanks to our sponsors Also thanks for creative input from: ArnabNandi, Chris Sadler and Steven Pelley

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