On 6/7/18, 7:48 AM, "Beowulf on behalf of Michael Di Domenico"
<beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org on behalf of mdidomeni...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 10:20 AM, Prentice Bisbal <pbis...@pppl.gov> wrote:
>
> 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.
my guess it's probably a low risk. not only are the pipes likely full
copper, which is toxic to most marine life, but the flow rate inside
the pipes is probably high enough that nothing has much of a chance to
stick. there's probably just some course basic filters that need to
scrubbed clear every once in a while.
i'm not sure i see a point in all this anyhow, it's a neat science
experiment, but what's the ROI on sinking a container full of servers
vs just pumping cold seawater from 100ft down
---
Yes, copper is your friend.
I like the idea (from Michigan?) - have a huge pit full of pipes next to the
server center and spray water during the winter to form ice, then melt the ice
during the summer.
Pumping cold water around is *much* easier than sinking a server farm in the
ocean.
On the other hand, there *are* people who would be interested in a sea bottom
computational capability to process data from, oh, an array of pressure,
acoustic, and other sensors, so that the link to the surface doesn't have to
carry a huge volume of data. Tsunami detection, for instance, or tracking sea
life migration.
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