As far as I can tell, they are just using the salt water to reject the heat to. How they get the heat from the cpu/hot bits to the water is not clearly stated...
A passive heat exchanger would make energy sense... but would cost a bomb in engineering... maybe direct fluid cooling (asetek) with a heat-exchanger to the salt water? Either way, its stupid. They could just easily pump the cool salt water from the ocean into a DC, reject heat to it using the same methods... and pump it back to the ocean. Since no real delta in height, it would be efficient in energy. OR... just use a boat... On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 2:27 PM <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 > -- Dr Stuart Midgley sdm...@gmail.com
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