fire at Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden

[John_Weatherman]

I see there's a big fire at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. I remember there was some folding servers there. Hope they don't go up in smoke ... I see it's the Architecture building so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

[kasson]

Thanks; I don't know the details of the fire yet, but our servers are ok and online. Those servers are actually among the better-protected in the FAH system because they're housed with a bunch of the national supercomputing infrastructure.

[John_Weatherman]

The fire started 7.10 and was not fully extinguished until about 21.00 - there will be an announcement Thursday when they've had a chance to asses the damage. Luckily no one was hurt, and if the servers are at the PDC center (with the new Cray machines) then it's another building a few hundred yards away. The major "victims" are the poor architecture students who have exams soon and some have examwork in the building, and work on the servers in the burnt out building.