Hello Richard,
in order to get another impression of what it means to build a machine room, have a look
at Bernd Ulmann's website:
www.vaxman.de
In the menum, click on museum, then on machine room (it's a link within the text).
He writes alot about all the problems he got confrontated with while building and
renovating
his machine room. It's very interesting!
Regards,
Pierre
OK, I know some of you have done this -- Henk with his brick PDP machine
room in the Netherlands, at least!
Looking more closely into the power and other environmental
requirements for my Onyx2 and other rack SGI systems, it seems prudent
that I shouldn't attempt having these systems up and running without
the appropriate environment.
Fortunately the electrical isn't too bad -- 220 VAC, single phase.
Its more the cooling and ducting part that has me wondering. At the
moment, I'm not concerned with creating a building. I'm wondering
more about what would it take to build a "machine room" inside an
existing structure. Naturally, we're talking about building this on a
"collector" budget and not what you would do if money were no object.
Assume you have something like a warehouse with a concrete floor but
no warehouse-wide cooling situation. Is it feasible to build a small
climate controlled room inside this larger structure? Where do you
get the necessary A/C equipment for such a thing?
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