However, if you really overclock, you can make french fries -- Doug
> 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 > > -- > MailScanner: clean > -- Doug -- MailScanner: clean _______________________________________________ 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
