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Liquid Blade Brings Immersion Cooling To Blade Servers

Posted by timothy on from the you-said-blade-twice dept.

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."

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  1. I want these at my data center... by tnok85 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  2. serviceability by arabagast · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

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    1. Re:serviceability by Kratisto · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    2. Re:serviceability by BiggerIsBetter · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

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    3. Re:serviceability by drinkypoo · · Score: 5, Informative

      We're talking about blade servers. they're not submerged nodes. they're submerged blades. storage happens on a SAN. What fucking year is it, anyway? In this design (big fat picture in the TFA, you lazy, reactionary fuck) each blade is sealed into its own unit which can be pulled separately. So it's even more of a non-issue. You just want something to complain about, when there is nothing to complain about. Thanks for helping make slashdot grate.

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