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Cirocco Live Liquid Cooled Rack
Mark Grant writes "Cirocco have developed a liquid cooled rack of AMD Duron 1.1Gs in a Beowulf cluster. The rack has been installed in Cambridge University, England and has been under trial since Christmas. The system is being put through its paces running chemical research algorithms.
Critical to Cirocco's liquid cooling system are the hot swappable quick couplings. These allow servers to be disconnected whilst the cooling system is in operation." The graph with live temperature readings is pretty neat.
Taking just one of those from the cluster.
it would be like have a pc.
wouldn't it
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of... DOH!
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The idea of "Hot swappable" when it comes to cooling couplings is making my head spin.
You have to wonder if "hot swappable" is the right term for this kind of system.
Why can't I moderate something "Wrong" or at least "Grossly Misinformed"?
Personally, I always thought a liquid cooled rack is what happens when Pamela Anderson spills beer down her shirt...
I wonder what type of chemical research these systems will be conducting... perhaps they will determining the reaction between water (H2O) and Silicon printed circuit boards? (come to think of it, reasearch isn't the only thing they'll be conducting)
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Perhaps they should look into using one of these for their webserver.
Even more impressive when slashdotted.
yeah I used to have a Scirocco, water cooled and everything. A great Volkswagen but damn what a parts hog. 2.8 Liter engine and a 5 speed manual it was a blast to drive.
Oh Cirocco? Not Scirocco? Whoops, but why on earth would anyone would dig up that dead convoluted name is beyond me. A few VW enthusiasts might always remember you but I think your just alienating your audience, all naming your company after trade winds.... Maybe iCirocco? Nah.
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You know, in a way I'm disappointed. I had always hoped to find out that Beowulf Clusters only acheived prominence after having slayed the evil Grendel Clusters in the back of some Scandanavian CompSci lab...
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...that "Live Liquid Cooled Rack" was some sort of wet T-shirt contest for geeks ?
Seriously though, match this with the IBM Ice-Cube storage cluster and you really would have one cool machine (ducking).
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Even though the heat capacity of gases is generally larger than liquids, the thermal conductivity of water is about 30 times larger than air. Also, plumbing lets me move the water to exactly where I want the cooling to take place without heating it along the way.
IBM mainframes (ECL-based) used water-cooled plates for the CPU and have spent a lot of design effort on quick-connect couplings that don't leak. I just wish they had transferred some of that knowledge to the Sears washing machine group.