The number of world wide DC’s that can accommodate 500kW/rack at any form of
scale is very small. So this is an ever decreasing market, particularly for
countries aligning with net zero commitments. So a market space is required.
The view from some companies/orgs, is that the Hyperscalars will take this
worry away from you… for a price.
On prem, I guess it’s back to the beginning. Why are we doing this and how are
our systems adding value and delivering the science/insights that make the
magic happen. Just another controversial $0.02
Pete
From: Beowulf <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Scott Atchley
Sent: 07 April 2024 23:07
To: Michael DiDomenico <[email protected]>
Cc: Beowulf Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] immersion [EXT]
On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 2:38 PM Michael DiDomenico
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
i'm curious if others think DLC might hit a power limit sooner or later, like
Air cooling already has, given chips keep climbing in watts.
What I am worried about is power per blade/node. The Cray EX design used in
Frontier has a limit per blade. Frontier and El Cap have two nodes per blade.
Aurora, which uses more power, only has one node per blade. I imagine that ORv3
racks will have similar issues.
We can remove 6KW per blade today and I am confident that we can remove some
more. That said, we could reach a point where a blade might just be a single
processor.
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