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I mean afraid with cnet news I'm here in Vancouver at the 2010 olympic winter games i'm here at the technology operations center with Magnus Alverson who's the chief integrator for access origin the company that helps pull together all the technology and so far it's been a little bit boring is that what I understand yes is be boring and I'm very happy because of that the game started for us really on Friday last week and the objective is to be bored and so far we we as bored as we can be and that's because all the planning obviously months and years of planning goes into this tell us what some of the things we see behind us what are some of the folks doing and monitoring okay so behind me we have the technology operations and I usually compare that to lasso Mission Control so what people are doing here is that they're monitoring and they are helping to support our operations that the venue's will also have some senior decision making in here so just to give you an idea I said this is a mass of Mission Control and venues I usually compared to Apollo 13 or whatever so as long as everything goes well we don't have anything to do but when things happens at the venue or something they call us in this basically Apollo 13 scenarios I induce them we got a problem and in here we we help them to solve the problem we have the expertise we know what's going on and we have that the senior team in technology throughout the whole Olympic arena but so far nobody's said Vancouver we have a problem so far so good what are some of the things that you have had to adjust with it sounds like the weather has been one of the things yes weather has impacted us quite a lot as you know there have been quite adverse weather conditions where actually the weather has been too good so we have to reschedule a lot of the competition and that impacts what we what we're doing here also the unfortunate accident in the luge training had us to to move the start gate in the core state so we had to redo some cabling and move some other scoreboards now you talk about things going smoothly what are what is the amount of technology it takes to put together something like the Olympic Games well we have about 6,000 pcs in the 800 servers about 800 networking devices that puts into the whole solution and just to give you a little bit of an idea of storage space we have about 130 terabytes in total that goes into the dissolution thanks Magnus you're welcome for more on the technology of the Olympic Games check out our blog at beyond binary that's wws calm / beyond binary