I should also add that Chris' URL provides a much better shot of the
racks going into the capsule, where you can see heat exchangers and
their fans are incorporate into the rack structure itself. In the
picture I commented on yesterday, you couldn't see that. It just looked
like the computer racks from that angle.
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?
What is interesting is that these servers are all equipped with FPGAs:
Going after the bitcoin crowd perhaps?
cheers,
Chris
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