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I first met the Green Revolution guys back at SC09 in Portland, Oregon. As I roamed the exhibit hall, people kept telling me to check out “those guys with the deep fryers full of servers”. At last I found them out in the lobby, which is the kids’ table section of the show. Above is a quick video of their demo that I shot …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Back to the Future

    Old IBM iron used liquid cooling because it was so much more efficient to remove the heat. Oh wait, these blokes weren't born back then.... now CMOS power densities are approaching the old bipolar numbers and guess what?

    Liquid cooling is baaaack!

    Hope they do a patent search before getting too enthusiastic with a start up.

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  2. Dave Bell

    It looks as though the target market is a bit specialised, perhaps more super-computer applications than ordinary data centres. More efficient cooling at the chip level gives you the chance to "overclock". So the server boards may well be specially made to cope with the oil, and use heat sinks that are optimised for oil immersion.

    Yes, nothing new under the sun, but getting it working for current styles of hardware is a pretty smart piece of work. Now, how about an oil-cooled Raspberry Pi?

    [Note: deep fryers run hotter than electronic components can survive. It's about 50C above the mil-spec temperature upper limit]

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    How..

    ..the devil are you supposed to swap out components or servers? I can certainly see someone managing ten or twenty servers not minding the occasional hands-into-the-oil, server-onto-the-dishwasher-rack routine, but a datacentre where you're doing that ten or twelve times a day? bollocks.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    Cost

    If a server fails occasionally it shouldn't matter if you're saving enough on the power bill. Just bin it and put in a new one.

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