Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: >> Those guys were at SC09. There is one reason above all else why oil >> cooling like this will never work it's just too messy. If you touched >> anything at that booth, you were almost guaranteed to get oil on your >> hands. There were plenty of paper towels being handed out at that booth. > > This is why the halogenated hydrocarbons (Freons) are nice.. they evaporate > quickly. (at the expense of ozone layer depletion.. but hey, with the big > cluster being cooled by the Freon, you'll be able to more accurately predict > the effect, right?) > > > >> And imagine taking a system out of the oil to replace components. Can >> you imagine trying to replace a slippery hard drive or CPU? Think of all >> those little damn screws that you always drop into the case when trying >> to reattach something. Now add some oily slipperyness. > > With oil, you can hose it off with kerosene.. or better yet hexane or > pentane, which is a lot less viscous and dissolves the oil nicely. Then the > hydrocarbon evaporates. Still a mess, though, but better. (we won't get into > other industrial issues that arise.. kids, don't try this at home) >
In both cases, we replace one environmental problem with another. That's what I call progress. Let's go all the way and use Benzene or Carbon Tetrachloride to remove the oil so we can some health risks, too. -- Prentice _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
