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Cirocco Live Liquid Cooled Rack

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the big-iron-on-the-hip dept.

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.

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  1. Just Imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Taking just one of those from the cluster.

    it would be like have a pc.

    wouldn't it

  2. Hot swappable? by questamor · · Score: 5, Funny

    The idea of "Hot swappable" when it comes to cooling couplings is making my head spin.

  3. Liquid cooled rack? by sssmashy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Personally, I always thought a liquid cooled rack is what happens when Pamela Anderson spills beer down her shirt...

  4. Chemical research? by moosesocks · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  5. Slashdotted... by MoTec · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps they should look into using one of these for their webserver.

  6. Don't say it. by SandSpider · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know what I'm talking about. Don't do it.

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  7. Re:Mod -5 Don't Let The Other Geeks Know I'm Cluel by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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