back to article EMC creates a Star Trek holodeck ... and uses it to simulate a data center

EMC can now simulate the interactions going on inside a data center using virtual servers. A data center is one of the most complicated structures on the planet. However, this is not because it necessarily has more physical components than any other complex piece of infrastructure, like a petrochemical refinery for example. …

  1. TeeCee Gold badge
    Coat

    EMC

    I guess that sales must now be so bad that they have to create pretend data centres to pretend to sell kit to. It's either that or just sit there and cry....

    1. Sir Runcible Spoon

      Re: EMC

      At least the next time someone asks you what the 'cloud' is, you can just show them that picture :)

  2. MalIlluminated

    Simulate the System

    BOFH 2013 Ep 9:

    ....

    "Yes, well, is it slow?"

    "Let me see," I say. "I'll just fire up the system monitor."

    >clickety!<

    >...A minute later...<

    "Well?" the Boss asks, "how long does it take to load?"

    "It's loaded!" I reply.

    "That's just a picture of the Earth from space!"

    "Yes - it's actually a picture of 'the system' as you call it. Now how far do you want me to zoom in?"

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Simulate the System

      That is awesome

    2. Notas Badoff

      Re: Simulate the System

      BOFH Stardate 56844.9

      "That's here? The local system? Does it have enough capacity for our cloud? We have a lot of data, and it's growing!"

      "Well, if you really need more capacity, I know a company named Bok can supply just the cloud you need. The storage density keeps increasing over time with no additional charges."

      "Sounds great! Any drawbacks?"

      "Mmmm, the network latency is longer than we're used to..."

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    This.

    This is what I so often do here whether it's simulating a system of computers for testing security scenarios or trying "weird" configurations for identifying improvements for the (network of machines) here. Ever since virtualization became usable on x86, I've been stuffing a ton of fast RAM and storage into my builds so I can torture something. That and do some awesome large/big data analytics and finite element analysis which is a very similar problem set.

    BTW: Tried GitHub but the libraries are up at this time.

  4. Androgynous Cow Herd

    They definitely are the right company for the job

    They have been simulating the role of the technology leader for years

  5. Steve Knox

    Scale...?

    What kind of hardware do you need to run this?

    At what point do you need a datacenter to hold the machines running the simulation of your datacenter?

    How do you simulate that datacenter?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Scale...?

      It's datacenters, Neo.

      All the way down.

    2. Suricou Raven

      Re: Scale...?

      You don't need to simulate it in real time, and you can replace a lot of components with simplified representations. You'll still need a silly amount of RAM.

  6. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

    Does it come with a virtual BOFH and PFY as well?

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Star Trek

    Here's another Star Trek reference for a lot of the EMC'ers given the Dell acquision.

    A lot of you are wearing red shirts on this expedition.

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Meanwhile, a question posed on an orbiting ship of the galactic union

    "How much datacenter surface is there on SOL III at the present time?"

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