https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/05/31/more-power-and-cooling-to-you/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 14 Jun 2023 05:37:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/05/31/more-power-and-cooling-to-you/#comment-209516 Sat, 03 Jun 2023 01:46:19 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142486#comment-209516 Cool interview! If I understand well then, the quite impressive 2,500 Gb/s link to clouds is something like 25 x 100 Gb/s ports (rather than 3 x 800 Gb/s or 6 x 400 Gb/s, both of which come just a tad short of 2,500)?

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/05/31/more-power-and-cooling-to-you/#comment-209515 Sat, 03 Jun 2023 01:10:36 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=142486#comment-209515 …Immersion cooling: Have a set of clothing dedicated for maintenance chores in the vats. I worked with “swimming” servers from 2018 – 2021. Very different. Modest yuck factor (mostly from convincing yourself that you can do this one quick vat-based chore without getting some of the “3M salad dressing” on your clothes…Working with 2U/4-node servers hanging face down in a vat: Lifting a node out to install a 2nd M.2 SSD (as I did 400 times), wearing disposable gloves while lifting and holding the node out of the vat with your arm extended horizontally to let the majority of the viscous fluid drain off (its NOT water!) WITHOUT it slipping out of your hand is somewhat challenging…But yeah, relative to all the complex per-server plumbing involved with other forms of liquid cooling at any level of scale, immersion would seem to be the future of server cooling…Oh and don’t forget about coax cable wicking (sigh!)

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