Oil Soaked Servers Coming Soon

grease_boy writes "A UK company will start selling server racks submerged in oil baths within a year. Very-PC is working on prototypes and says that because oil transfers heat more efficiently, power usage can be cut by fifty percent."

Heh

[peterprior]

Bring a whole new meaning to Oil in a rack...... geddit..

*grabs coat*

But how do they taste?

[Anonymous Coward]

I find most fried foods taste the same. Will computers follow this trend?

Interesting

[LordPhantom]

That sounds like a step forward. At least, until you consider that anyone working on them would get coated in oil... and frankly, server admins coated in oil are really something nobody wants to see.

Re:Interesting

[SNR monkey]

There really needs to be a "-1 Disgusting" mod for posts like yours. It made me laugh initially, but then I shuddered when the mental image hit. I'm going to try not to think about that for the rest of the day. Or any other day for that matter.

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Depends on the admin

[Opportunist]

I, for one, would definitly start lobbying for more female tech workers here!

Finally a computer that can

[Anonymous Coward]

leak oil. I knew British ingenuity would eventually overcome the basic problem.

oil

[normuser]

Oily racks you say? You know this just might catch on.

Just what overweight geeks need

[DanielMarkham]

It's not enough that we have jobs where we sit down all of the time, now we have a computer that's also a deep-fryer.

Or, if they use motor oil, will Penzoil and other oil companies start running TV ads? "I couldn't play DOOM 6 until I switch to 10W-40 ultra. Now I kick butt"

Maybe the computers can start coming with chrome valve covers.

job interview, 2009:

[circletimessquare]

"Hello, I'm reviewing your application and I don't see any IT exposure in it at all, no education, no experience... what makes you think that you're suited for a job at a server farm?"

"Well, I was a fry cook at McDonalds for 2 years"

"You're hired"

Previously Patented Work?

[ITMagic]

The opportunities are endless....
... but the idea has been eloquently covered before with the Beowoulf Vax Cluster. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/11/bofh_and_t he_vax_cluster/ [theregister.co.uk]

Re:Heh

[nacturation]

Does this oiled up rack run on 36 double D batteries?
 

Re:Oil Soaked Servers?

[inviolet]

Do you want me to make the joke about "fried chips" or do you want to do it?

Give it to us raw -- and wriggling! You keep nasty chips!

Re:Heh

[hobo sapiens]

Ah, the Oily Boid gets the Woim!

Hot cha cha cha cha

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Re:Heh

[thoughtlover]

Awww... I thought you were going to point us to a clip of C3PO being lowered into his oil bath. That's almost like a server soaked in oil, yeah?

Re:Depends on the admin

[suggsjc]

Hold on, that actually might be funny. A beowulf cluster of oil covered female tech workers?

Re:Cut power in half?

[Brickwall]

Efficiency on the A/C units is usually around 2:1 and sometimes approaches 3:1, that is you get twice the cooling as the energy you put in.

In this /., we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

And since we're posting on /.

[Svartalf]

You'd not be any more likely to get laid in that situation than the normal one.
(I will admit, though, that the scenery would probably be more appealing then... >:-) )

Re:Oil Soaked Servers?

[Ardipithecus]

With the right chip you could make french fires at the same time

Re:Interesting

[Hoi Polloi]

I don't look forward to taking my PC to Jiffy-Lube for my 500 cpu-hour oil change.

We also need to break the dependency on foreign PC oil sources. I'm switching to bio-diesel PCs. Ummmm, my PC smells like french fries.

British company, computers, oil!

[whoever57]

It just had to be a British company! (If you don't understand, search this page [csbruce.com] for the word "British".)

Re:And since we're posting on /.

[drinkypoo]

I don't know about the industry as a whole, but the female IT workers here almost always seem to be adorable little asian girls.

I think all of slashdot wants to know... are you hiring?

Re:Depends on the admin

[gstoddart]

Hold on, that actually might be funny. A beowulf cluster of oil covered female tech workers?

Ummmm .... schwing

Re:Heh

[cayenne8]

But, aren't we trying to wean ourselves off dependence on foreign oil??

Why not start off right, and soak these in biodiesel or ethanol?

:-)