"Hardee, Charles H" <charles.har...@ca.com> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> 02/16/2010 09:39 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu>
To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: What was old is new again (water chilled) Yeah.... this is the bigger "wow!" for me. I didn't realize they had been out so long, but I knew that PC manufacturers (gaming machines for the most part, I think) put out water/liquid cooled PC's. It always amazes me how the PC hardware and software industries pooh-pooh the mainframe for all it's worth and then, all of the sudden (with the least amount of fanfare possible; lest they be forced to eat their words) you see some hardware or software "thing" that you remember from some 3084 or 3090 complex a long time ago. This liquid cooling of gaming machines and "virtualization" (VM) come to mind right away as good examples of what I'm talking about. That said, I really can't wait to see one of these liquid cooled gaming machines. My stepson is getting one soon and I'm very curious to see how it's put together. Especially given that I was working 2nd shift Ops one time when the main output of one of our chillers busted and about 250 gallons of water pumped out under the floor before the alarms went off and I could stop the bleeding. Not that this could happen to the gaming machine, but it's just that I have a sadistically warm spot in my heart for chillers. ;-) Scott T. Harder Mainframe Services, Inc. Naples, FL > If you really want to twist the knife with those PC weenies, point them > here: > http://www.frozencpu.com/cat/l1/g30/Liquid_Cooling.html?id=rWHp49Wp > I can't say that it's water cooling, but this is one of many suppliers > of liquid > cooling add-ons for the PC, and they've been available for many years > now. <snip> <BR>_____________________________________________________________ <FONT size=2><BR> DTCC DISCLAIMER: This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately and delete the email and any attachments from your system. The recipient should check this email and any attachments for the presence of viruses. The company accepts no liability for any damage caused by any virus transmitted by this email.</FONT> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
