[Beowulf] Project Natick

[Chris Samuel]

On Thursday, 7 June 2018 12:34:54 AM AEST Prentice Bisbal wrote:

> Has anybody seen any more details on how the cooling actually occurs withing
> the capsule?

There's a bit more here:

https://datacenterfrontier.com/the-watery-edge-microsoft-deploys-undersea-servers-in-scotland/

# A key change from the prototype was in the cooling system, where Naval Group
# adapted a heat-exchange process commonly used for cooling submarines,
# piping seawater directly through the radiators on the back of each of the 12
# server racks and back out into the ocean.

So water cooled doors, but presumably hardened against the corrosive
properties of sea water?

> What is interesting is that these servers are all equipped with FPGAs:

Going after the bitcoin crowd perhaps?

cheers,
Chris
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