Liquid Blade Brings Immersion Cooling To Blade Servers 79
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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."
I want these at my data center... (Score:5, Funny)
my server is leaking (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I want these at my data center... (Score:3, Funny)
Hell, I'd get promoted if I did that... maybe you need to get your boss's job?
Re:serviceability (Score:5, Funny)
Re:my server is leaking (Score:4, Funny)
Do you need a snorkel and flippers to swap a network cable?
And if the dielectric fluid is non-compressible... (Score:2, Funny)
I'd like to be under the sea in an octopuses data garden in the shade...
Re:serviceability (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 [imdb.com]? 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.