The idea is that you circumvent the cooling problem altogether by dumping data centers in the ocean. I'm curious if anybody has crunched the numbers on this idea to see if it makes sense, just from a cooling perspective.
water is great for cooling, but I would be worried about how to maintain performance and integrity while coming in contact with a lot of mineral and bio-laden water. anti-fouling is a major topic with boats, and they're not usually trying to maintain
a heat flux...
it looked like the msft thing was exchanging heat across its surface (no other flow). to be interesting, it would need to dissipate ~20 kW, which if I did the math right would be a pretty modest .472 l/s. (assuming 10C rise in water temp). that sounds like it would be doable with passive convection. maybe warming the water could be useful in some way - shrimp farm? _______________________________________________ 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
