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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. Well it's clearly obvious... by LordHunter317 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That they don't use their products on their own webservers...

    The /. effect nabs another victim!

  2. wow ! by nsebban · · Score: 0, Redundant

    can you imagine a whole Beowulf cluster of theese things ?! well...huh...nevermind :)

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  3. beowulf cluster by a7244270 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these ?

    Oh wait.

    Shit.

  4. Oh Man..just imagine a .... by RobertKozak · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ahhh dang it ... just forget it!

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  5. Re:Fluid connectors by Mark+Grant · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yes, they are a type of scaled down hydraulic coupling. The primary difference is in their performance. Hydraulic couplings are notoriously bad at slowing down the fluid. This is definitely not good for cooling.