Liquid Blade Brings Immersion Cooling To Blade Servers

1sockchuck writes "In the past year we've seen several new cooling systems that submerge rack-mount servers. Now liquid immersion cooling is coming to blade servers. Liquid-cooled PC specialist Hardcore Computer has entered the data center market with Liquid Blade, which features two Intel 5600 Xeon processors with an S5500HV server board in a chassis filled with dielectric fluid. Hardcore, which is marketing the product for render farms, says it eliminates the need for rack-level fans and room-level air conditioning. In recent months Iceotope and Green Revolution Cooling have each introduced liquid cooling for rack-mount servers."

Comments

I want these at my data center...

[tnok85]

Although it's good we don't have them. I'd probably get fired when they find a rack of production servers running at 4.6GHz.

Re:I want these at my data center...

[Anonymous Coward]

Hell, I'd get promoted if I did that... maybe you need to get your boss's job?

my server is leaking

[vacarul]

finally some good news for Joe the Plumber.

Re:my server is leaking

[Joce640k]

Do you need a snorkel and flippers to swap a network cable?

Re:serviceability

[Kratisto]

The IT department is required to have SCUBA certification for regular maintenance.

And if the dielectric fluid is non-compressible...

[voodoo cheesecake]

I'd like to be under the sea in an octopuses data garden in the shade...

Re:serviceability

[BiggerIsBetter]

How hard is it to say; change a disk in one of the submerged nodes ? or fix a loose ethernet cable ? If the nodes are separated in compartments, and you could isolate and drain one while servicing it, this would be really nice indeed.

Did you see the movie Sunshine? You'll have to immerse yourself in the coolant, possibly freezing and/or bleeding to death after getting your leg stuck in the rack. It had better be an important upgrade.