Microsoft’s Tiny Data Center Liquid Cooling Experiment Is a Big Deal
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Microsoft’s Tiny Data Center Liquid Cooling Experiment Is a Big Deal
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So the big trick here is the engineering on the chemical end for the coolant.
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Yeah. It has to have the right boiling point, so it self circulates. The Cray 2 supercomputer used a flourocarbon coolant also, but it had a huge cooling unit attached to it. What's novel here is no circulating pumps or heat exchangers.
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And the fluid does not harm PCBs or components.
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Yeah non conducting. Inert non-conducting fluorocarbons have been around a while.
Below is the Cray 2 super computer, circa 1985, on the left, and the associated Fluorinert-cooling “waterfall” on the right, which I have to say looks like a Buck Rogers TV show prop more than a $17.5 million computer
I have vivid memories of this photo in some science magazine, showing Seymour Cray next to a protype Cray 2 module, just literally submerged in a fish tank full of fluorocarbon fluid.
Below is the Cray 2 super computer, circa 1985, on the left, and the associated Fluorinert-cooling “waterfall” on the right, which I have to say looks like a Buck Rogers TV show prop more than a $17.5 million computer
I have vivid memories of this photo in some science magazine, showing Seymour Cray next to a protype Cray 2 module, just literally submerged in a fish tank full of fluorocarbon fluid.
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Re: Microsoft’s Tiny Data Center Liquid Cooling Experiment Is a Big Deal
Funny, I just finished watching an episode of Halt & Catch Fire where they are using liquid cooling to overclock.