On 06/06/2018 09:13 PM, Chris Samuel wrote:
On Thursday, 7 June 2018 12:34:54 AM AEST Prentice Bisbal wrote:
Has anybody seen any more details on how the cooling actually occurs withing
the capsule?
There's a bit more here:
https://datacenterfrontier.com/the-watery-edge-microsoft-deploys-undersea-servers-in-scotland/
# A key change from the prototype was in the cooling system, where Naval Group
# adapted a heat-exchange process commonly used for cooling submarines,
# piping seawater directly through the radiators on the back of each of the 12
# server racks and back out into the ocean.
So water cooled doors, but presumably hardened against the corrosive
properties of sea water?
I imagine it would have to be filtered, too, to keep small marine life
and debris from clogging up the piping. I wonder if any forms of marine
life in that part of the ocean would like the warm water inside the
heat exchangers or at the exhaust and try to make it their homes.
What is interesting is that these servers are all equipped with FPGAs:
Going after the bitcoin crowd perhaps?
cheers,
Chris
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