19 Jul
2016
19 Jul
'16
11:04 a.m.
On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, ethan at 757.org wrote:
The Cray is single phase, the only thing I've ever
owned that was 3
phase was the laser stuff. Now my solid state laser projector uses 100
watts and producsed half the power of the argon that used to take 3ph @
30A (and still tripped the breaker sometimes.)
I haven't been able to articulate anything witty, but I'll go ahead and
just say: Ethan I don't know what you do with those BF-lasers, but it
sounds damn awesome, anyway. Your stock just went up. It's hard to make
lasers anything but sci-fi radical coolness.
I've heard sometimes the utility will indeed give
you 3phase but you
have to pay them to replace the transformer and it's very very
expensive.
Yep. It's happened in every case I've been involved with here in Colorado
(ie.. residential or small buildings, not in data centers).
Normally it's people buying used milling equipment
that are after it
from my experience. There are rotary converters and solid state
converters but probably not ideal for huge loads.
... and as I mentioned before, they can break. So, even if your VCF will
handle the load, your uptime requirement might be a dealbreaker if you
have commercial intentions.
The Cray uses 5 x Pioneer magnetics power supplies
that I believe are
identical to those in the Sun E10000.
"back in the day" I was a certified (not as an FE, though) in various ways
for the E10k, E15k, and E25k. We had several at Oracle when I worked
there. However, I don't remember that detail (the brand of the PSs). I'm
sure you are right, though.
Note - in the modern datacenter in the US it's not
uncommon for
everything to be run on 208, but everything would run on 120.
Yep, that's my experience, too. Although many telco datacenters still use
DC. They are funny like that.
-Swift