Watercooling and servers? Boston Limited shows you how!

[HEXUS]

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

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[DR]

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...

[Moby-Dick]

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 )

[TheAnimus]

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!

[Tarinder]

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.

[moogle]

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

[nichomach]

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.

[greenalien]

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

[greenalien]

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

[lost eden]

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

[Jay]

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