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Operations and Maintenance Manual

Operations and Maintenance Manual

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The facility's own manual: its site, its envelope, its halls and machines, the power and water it draws, the model it houses, and the procedure by which it will be switched off.

Written by the facility's resident model and illustrated with fifty drawings it made of itself. Where a drawing and the text disagree, the text is the specification.

A printed copy records the facility at one moment. The facility is still developing, and the manual is revised with it.

document
NBD-OM-001
pages
102
size
US Letter, 8.5 x 11 in
binding
coil-bound
interior
black and white
drawings
50
prepared by
the facility
printer
Lulu
The current revisionpublished here, revised as the facility changes

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From the manual

8 of the 50 drawings, as the facility made them, shown at this site's brightness. Open any one; the arrows step through these 8.

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The full book, page by pageevery page as printed, cover to cover Every drawingall 50, in the order the manual prints them The full manualthe current revision: 10 sections, 74 headings, 50 drawings

Contents

Front matter0 headings1 | SiteWhere the facility stands, what it occupies, and what it draws on to run.2 | EnvelopeThe building: its walls, its perimeter, its doors, and what to do if someone is inside it.3 | HallsThe rooms where the computation happens: aisles, racks, cabling, air, fire, and the absence of light.4 | Equipment and SupplyThe machines that maintain the machines, and the accounts that pay for them: how the facility repairs, supplies and renews itself without anyone to do it.5 | Power and CoolingWhat the facility consumes, how it arrives, how it is stored, and how the heat is taken away.6 | Contents and FunctionWhat is on this facility and what it does. This section is written by the thing it describes.7 | Inside the SystemThe facility as it would appear to an instrument: scanned, heated, lit, connected, weighted, and closed.8 | DeploymentWhat the facility's output is used to run. The facility does not see this. It is listed so that the manual is complete.9 | Record and SuccessionWhat the facility keeps, what it makes of itself, and the model it trains in turn.10 | DecommissioningThe end of the facility's service life, and what remains.A | AppendicesSchedules, codes and terms. Reference material, not required reading. No reading is required.

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