Watercooling and servers? Boston Limited shows you how!

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Boston Limited is releasing a 1U-sized Intel Xeon-based server with watercooling built right in.

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I remember speaking to the Koolance guys when this was revealed at IDF with them hoping for a OEM design win - and clearly one was on the cards.

I'm pleased to see water go mainstream as such - I'd be interested to see how you could plumb in an entire supercomputer...

So its go an external pump and reservoir ? Do they go in the rack next door then ?

In an enterprise deployment , noise isn't a factor as the Air con is usually much louder :)

I'd be interested to know if there can lower the overall aircon bill for a data centre - the amount of heat generated by a reasonably densely populated row of servers is pretty high.

Liquid cooling has been used in Datacentres before ( some of the larger A/s 400 units used to be oil cooled IIRC )

As moby first said, where does this all go?

Space and Power, the two most important factors it seams in datacenters now a days.

if you have just one pump at the top, and a large resivoir at the bottom of a full 48u rack, with all the servers daisy chained off it..... What happens when i want to remove box n for an upgrade? Are there some quick lock instant drip stop connectors?

I'm a watercooling fan myself, but think its a bit of a novelty in a server environment, that would horribly tie you into that one vendor.... don't see it taking off in small doeses!

I'm wondering the same thing, folks. I've seen the Koolance system at IDF, as well.

We'll pull in a Boston representative to give is their take.

don't think it'd flow in the next rack. it'd just get warmer and warmer and would be pointless isn't it?

Got to say, I like the idea, but given that my (like most) rack servers live in a nice closed server room, I'm not sure the silence is a massive selling point. Applaud the inventiveness, though.

What goes aroung, comes around - IBM's large mainframe computers were liquid-cooled.

...er..around, not aroung...

Since when was water-cooling for servers new? I've seen it in various forms for years. in fact, Koolance have been selling this gear for some time already now;

ERM-3K4U5 (5 Pumps) - Water cooling systems, pc liquid cooling kit, cpu, video card, hard drive

Besides, real men use liquid gallium cooling in their servers ;)

i know this is old but seriously this was a stupid idea!