Anybody know of a nice cheap, high melting point, easy to work with sheet material, for making a custom air shroud?
We have one box with stuff in it that looks similar to HDPE, the material the white flexible cutting boards are made of, but it is a bit thinner and more rigid that that. Unfortunately there are no markings on it, so HDPE is just a guess. Whatever it is, it cut easily with scissors (I had to trim it slightly at one point.) Background. We have an older Supermicro SC-823 server with dual processors. The air shroud it came with only covers the first processor. That didn't matter much when it had two low power processors in it, but after upgrading it to dual Opteron 280s, the uncovered second one runs considerably hotter than the covered front one. (Swapping the processors around didn't help - the heat stayed where it was, so a ventilation issue, not a processor issue.) Supermicro does make a newer shroud which extends to the back of the case, but the manual (google for "SC-823 air shroud user's guide") indicates that it is designed for Intel CPUs. So it may or may not fit around the Opterons. The redesigned air shroud will probably work, but I'm about 90% confident that taping a sheet of plastic onto the back of the existing shroud would work as well - if I can find a plastic that won't flap around or melt. Thanks, David Mathog mat...@caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
