#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. A data center to be tested in extreme conditions on a drifting ice floe in the Arctic will be dropped from an Il-76 from a height of more than ten thousand meters, the Russian company RUVDS reported to TASS.
Placing servers on a drifting ice floe and working to create comfortable conditions for the operation of a data center is the main task for engineers and specialists at RUVDS. The project got the support of experts from Stratonavtika LLC, a company providing technical and organizational support for launching scientific, educational and commercial loads into the stratosphere using a stratospheric complex of its own design, who will monitor the accuracy of the data received and their quality. This will allow the company to obtain the maximum amount of information about the data center operation in extreme conditions.
The world’s first stratospheric jump to the North Pole from a height of more than ten thousand meters will be made from the same aircraft. The equipment’s release and the people’s jump is planned for the period from April 2 to April 6. The record will be set by Hero of Russia, cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, pilot instructor Alexander Lynnik and Stratonavtika LLC’s director Denis Efremov.
It is known that in March the project participants were tested in thermal and pressure chambers and made a test jump from six thousand meters. The equipment confirmed its performance.
Landing is the best option to test the full range of possible loads for equipment. The form factor of the data center implies its reliability and mobility, experts say.
The equipment will be put into operation on the territory of the Barneo ice camp located near the North Pole. It will maintain contact with the RUVDS satellite, transmitting its telemetry through it. The hosting provider and specialists from Stratonavtika LLC, which is the project’s technical partner, will monitor the accuracy and quality of the transmitted data.
The Barneo polar station is a drifting ice base in the Arctic, which has been created annually since 2000 under the auspices of the Russian Geographical Society. It operates for only a month and a half, usually in April, and consists of an ice airfield, residential modules, administrative and technical premises. The station is visited by scientists who conduct comprehensive studies of water masses, ice, living organisms and the atmosphere, as well as tourists.
Earlier, This Is Taimyr wrote about the program for installing a data processing center near the North Pole. We also told you that pilot-cosmonaut Sergey Ryazansky visited Norilsk.
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Text: Denis Kozhevnikov, Photo: author
