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Cooling Bags Could Cut Server Cooling Costs By 93%

Posted by timothy on from the or-other-exact-number dept.

judgecorp writes "UK company Iceotope has launched liquid-cooling technology which it says surpasses what can be done with water or air-cooling and can cut data centre cooling costs by up to 93 percent. Announced at Supercomputing 2009 in Portland, Oregon, the 'modular Liquid-Immersion Cooled Server' technology wraps each server in a cool-bag-like device, which cools components inside a server, rather than cooling the whole data centre, or even a traditional 'hot aisle.' Earlier this year, IBM predicted that in ten years all data centre servers might be water-cooled." Adds reader 1sockchuck, "The Hot Aisle has additional photos and diagrams of the new system."

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  1. Re:Yes, but how much does it cost? by jgtg32a · · Score: 3, Funny

    About 7% as much as whatever you are using today

  2. Re:Do I get at least a pair of rubber gloves? by ByOhTek · · Score: 4, Funny

    What, they won't? Oh man, this virtualization thing is brilliant.

    So you virtualize a box, so that, if there's a hardware failure, the box can be brought back up on another machine, with minimal downtime! Also, you can run multiple systems on a box saving money!

    We virtualized all our servers around here, went from about 200 servers to 8 machines, each with 16 CPU cores. It went well. So we decided to repeat the process. We then had 4 machines, each taking two VM hosts! It was great, more savings, more vodka for my drawer... So I thought, how could I make this even better...?

    That's right, I put all four of THOSE VM hosts on a 486 in the back room that doesn't even need special cooling. Let me tell you, in terms of Vodka, this virtualization thing has been *quite* productive.

    How could it not be all pervasive by 2019? I'm sure everyone will be virtualizing all of their VM hosts on VM hosts running on 486s by 2019!

    --
    Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
  3. Re:Coming back full circle by Digestromath · · Score: 3, Funny

    Next up, cooling servers with a bag of frozen peas?

  4. Re:Yes, but how much does it cost? by rainmaestro · · Score: 2, Funny

    And mutated sea bass patrolling the aisles to maintain security?

  5. Re:Excess Heat by CompMD · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Very little, since you're dealing with very low quality heat."

    And that's why in the really good systems, the only acceptable option is Monster Heat, the finest quality heat available, and its even gold plated.

  6. Re:Yes, but how much does it cost? by Lueseiseki · · Score: 2, Funny

    The price for the bags, knucklehead.