Jonathan, Stu Midgley will be along in a minute. He can tell us all about immersion cooling! A friend of mine operates another type of cluster at a UK lab, which is immersion cooled. He calls it the Deep Fat Fryer. I shall refrain from naming the lab!
On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 at 09:24, John Hearns <hear...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Jonathan, the data centre inside the submerged cylinder has air in it. > The sea water is let in through pipes and a heat exchanger is used to > water cool the racks. > I would imagine that the raw seawater is used to conduct heat out of the > cylinder, and pure water is recirculated through the racks. > The servers are not immersed in sea water! > > > On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 at 06:27, <jaquil...@eagleeyet.net> wrote: > >> Probably a stupid question here, >> >> What is the advantage of using salty sea water lets say over for example >> mineral oil? I have seen on you tube these guys showing that a pc will >> still run in a fish tank and all components submerged in mineral oil? >> Yes it will be messier to change components but would the use of mineral >> oil be more efficient? >> >> >> On 2018-11-04 14:10, Gerald Henriksen wrote: >> > On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 18:27:05 +0000, you wrote: >> > >> >> I’m not sure there’s a huge population of Xcloud-Xbox gamers in >> >> Orkney. There's not much daylight this time of year, of course, so >> >> maybe that's what those Orcadians are up to. >> > >> > Likely just a convenient place for a second test unit. >> > >> > In a way this is just an extension of the idea/product Sun came up wth >> > where they put a datacentre in a shipping container with the idea that >> > you could quickly get the datacentre where it was needed. >> > >> > While I wouldn't say this won't fail, I think there is a lot of >> > attraction to the concept given not just the time lag do build a >> > traditional data centre (mentioned in the article), but even the cost >> > of real estate in many/most places people live these days. Do you, >> > for one example, want to pay NYC rents or just throw a bunch of pods >> > in the Hudson? >> > >> > I guess once you accept the idea that we no longer maintain these >> > datacentres in the traditional way - we now just let hardware fail in >> > place and ignore it until it's time to replace all the hardware - >> > moving to smaller sealed units doesn't seem to strange. >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >
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