Yeah, what he said, PLUS what I said = REALLY big cave, blinkenlights,
dripping water, something on your shoe.
> Standalone single machine... maybe for a non essential system. Anything
where they really want to make sure it doesn't go down or lose data,
they get big... Fast. Think about it... To have no single point of
failure you need > double of everything from power supply to CPU to main
board. Clusters designed for heavy load you could be talking dozens.
Redundant storage OS usually a separate box or two at least,
particularly if it needs to upgradeable
> and maintainable without going down.
> Then you need power SOURCES. Ideally at least two separate feeds but
likely a big UPS battery bank also with redundancy and probably a manual
generator or two on top of all that...
> I could buy the machine itself being a shoebox... But dozens of shoe
boxes is more like it. with a bunch of redundancy and fall safe assumed,
I still don't find Traveller mainframe conceptions entirely out of
place... At
> least for a crucial application like a starship
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