sry for another post but i just got an idea. im not sure if you have seen that you tube video of a guy who put his whole setup in a fish tank and was using cooking oil i believe to cool everything. would be interesting to see the 2nd cluster put into a big enough tank and cooled with oil.
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Jonathan Aquilina <[email protected]>wrote: > how much would something like this go for? > > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Jon Tegner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In this case we have large "home made" heat sinks, I'll put up more >> pictures when I get the time. You can check other designs at >> >> www.renget.se/gallery.html >> >> In contrast to our "Second cluster" on that site, which is completely fan >> less, this has two large fans. By using the fans one can get adequate >> cooling in a smaller box (than what would be possible without fans). >> >> When I get the time (when?) I intend to do combined cfd/heat flow >> simulations of our designs (have a PhD in numerical analysis). >> >> Eventually we hope to market this. >> >> Regards, >> >> /jon >> >> >> On Apr 7, 2010 15:34 "Jonathan Aquilina" >> <[email protected]><[email protected]>wrote: >> >> is one of you an engineer? how well does the air flow in the case. what >> gets air into and out of the case if there are just only 2 fans on the >> box? you guys ever consider marketing this product? >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Jon Tegner <<[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> > We (me and my brother) have been into silent computing, and clusters, >> > for quite some time now. We just recently designed and built a unit >> > equipped with 4 supermicro boards (H8DMT) and 8 cpus. In the actual >> > unit the cpus are Opterons with 6 cores each, but it would be easy >> > enough to switch to cpus with 12 cores. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > The box are of dimensions 40x42x58 cm, so it is reasonably small. Two >> > large and silent fans are used to cool the system. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > For a picture of the unit check >> > >> > >> > >> > http://www.renget.se/bilder/redBox.jpg >> >> > >> > >> > Comments on this? >> > >> > >> > /jon >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Beowulf mailing list, <[email protected]> <[email protected]>sponsored >> > by Penguin >> > Computing >> > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit >> > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Jonathan Aquilina >> >> > > > -- > Jonathan Aquilina > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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