There has been a company at the SC conferences for the past 3 years trying to sell exactly that (server cooling by submersion in mineral oil) for the past 3 years.
In my opinion it, suffers from a few major problems: 1. It's messy. If you every have to take hardware out of the oil to repair/replace, it's messy. The oil could drip all over, creating safety hazards. And if you need to remove a hardware component from a server, good luck! Now that everything is oily and slippery, there definitely will be a problem with that hard drive once it flies out of your hands, even if there wasn't a problem with it before! 2. The weight of the mineral oil. Despite the density of current 1-U and blade systems, I still think that air makes up a not-significant percentage of volume of the full rack. Fill that space with a liquid like mineral oil, and I'm sure you double, triple, or maybe even quadruple the weight load on your datacenter's raised floor. -- Prentice http://msds.farnam.com/m000712.htm On 12/23/2011 2:32 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > > I am just curious as to everyones take on this > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtufuXLvOok > > Being able to over clock the systems how much more performance gains can > one get out of them > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
