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建议 Inside the OSS Lab
To some folks outside of Microsoft, the Open-Source Software Lab has been a sort of mysterious place. A place where we study Linux and open-source software, cursing our enemies while brewing our malevolent plans to combat those nasty FOSS developers. Oh, and we also have a death ray on the roof of building 17. It's Linux-powered, of course, just to add a little irony.
As you probably have guessed, the reality is that the OSS Lab is just a room full of servers, used by engineers who just love to work with technology. Much of what we do is research, testing and of course there is an educational aspect as well. We all love Linux and open-source, and I almost never take my death-ray to work.
Currently, our lab houses about seven racks of servers. Unlike some of the build-labs on campus, the OSS Lab contains an eclectic variety of hardware. From older Pentium III Compaq blade servers, 8-way Xeon, Itanium and Opteron systems, to the latest POWER6. Most of the systems run some distribution of Linux, but we also have several BSD, AIX and Sun systems as well. And, naturally, we also have a good number of Windows systems (we are an interop lab, after all).
So now, to help cure your curiosity, the following is a short photo-tour of the actual Linux/OSS Lab at Microsoft. Enjoy!
We just had installed a new 12-ton cooling unit in the lab.
The OSS Lab has continued to grow over the years, and things were getting a bit too toasty in there.
A top view of our penguin-powered servers...
Here are a couple of our server racks. We have a fair number of blade systems now from HP, IBM and Dell.
In the background is the new IBM P570 (POWER6) system. It's basically totally sweet.
This is my favorite of them all, the ultra-small Gumstix Netstix.
We've had this little guy running Samba, Asterisk, Apache and various other things. It runs Windows CE now, too.
Two of the Penguins that work in the lab; Chris (left) and Christoph (right).
I'm not proud of this. We're typically much more organized....
I finally got our plasma screen remounted after the recent cooling upgrades.
Halo 3 looks pretty awesome, and we take our weekly UT3 tournaments very seriously.
The rest of the Penguins. From left: Christoph, Joel, Frank and Chris.
That's all for now!
初探微软开源软件实验室
对于微软外部的人来说，微软开源软件实验室是一个有点神秘的地方。在那里我们研究Linux和开源软件，诅咒我们的敌人，酝酿恶毒的计划去对付那些可恶的自由及开源软件开发者。噢，在我们17栋楼顶上还有死光。它是Linux驱动的，当然，我说这些只是为了增加一点点嘲讽意味。
大概你已经猜到了，事实上OSS实验室只是一个排满服务器的房间，由那些只喜欢技术的工程师使用。我们在这的工作大多数是研究、测试，当然还有咨询方面的工作。我们都喜欢Linux和开源，并且我几乎从来没有使用我的死光武器。
当前，我们的实验室大概有七个机架的服务器。和校园里的开发实验室不同，微软OSS实验室兼收并蓄了各种各样的硬件。从古老的奔III康柏刀片服务器，8路的至强，安腾和Opteron体系，到最新的POWER6。大多数服务器运行某个Linux发行版，但是也有一些BSD,AIX和SUN系统。当然我们也有很多微软系统（毕竟我们是一个互动实验室）。
现在，为了满足一下你们的好奇心，下面简短对微软Linux/OSS实验室来一个照片巡游。
最近我们在实验室安装了一个新的12吨冷却单元。
随着这些年来OSS实验室的成长，我们在里面越来越温暖了。
企鹅动力服务器的顶部视图...
这是我们的几个服务器机架。我们现在有数量相等的一批HP、IBM和戴尔刀片系统。
背景图是一台新的IBM P570(POWER6)系统。它爽极了。
这是我的最爱，Gumstix公司的Netstix迷你电脑。
我们让这个小玩意运行Samba, Asterisk, Apache 和很多其他的东西。它现在运行着Windows CE。
实验室里工作的两只企鹅；Chris (左) 和 Christoph (右)。
对这个我并不感到自豪。通常我们比这更有组织一点....
在最近的制冷升级过后，我终于把我们的等离子屏幕重新装上了。
Halo 3在上面看起来棒极了，并且我们非常认真的对待每周的UT3比赛。
其余的企鹅们。从左起：Christoph, Joel, Frank 和Chris。
到现在为止，所有的情况就是这些了！
