I can confirm this. I was working at NASA when the last "data call" was put out. We had a room with a flight simulator in it, powered by an SGI Onyx2. The conversation with the auditor went like this:
Auditor *points at Onyx2* "Is that machine shared?" Me: "Well yeah, the whole group uses it to..." Auditor: *aside, to colleague* "OK, mark this room down too." And our flight simulator lab became a data center. On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Sean Donelan <s...@donelan.com> wrote: > If you've wondered why the U.S. Government has so many data centers, ok I > know no one has ever asked. > > The U.S. Government has an odd defintion of what is a data center, which > ends up with a lot of things no rational person would call a data center. > > If you call every room with even one server a "data center," you'll end up > with tens of thousands of rooms now data centers. With this defintiion, I > probably have two data centers in my home. Its important because > Inspectors General auditors will go around and count things, because that's > what they do, and write reports about insane numbers of data centers. > > > https://datacenters.cio.gov/optimization/ > > "For the purposes of this memorandum, rooms with at least one server, > providing services (whether in a production, test, stage, development, or > any other environment), are considered data centers. However, rooms > containing only routing equipment, switches, security devices (such as > firewalls), or other telecommunications components shall not be considered > data centers." >
