[Beowulf] 'liquid cooled' racks

Andrew M.A. Cater amacater at galactic.demon.co.uk
Tue Dec 5 08:49:43 PST 2006


On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 09:13:38AM -0600, Eric Shook wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> Our University is also looking into these racks.  We have also looked at 
> other vendors with similar liquid cooling and something called 
> "Spraycool" technology (limited in deployment) among others.  I would 
> also be interested in the information you collect on or off the list and 
> would be willing to share some information.
> 
The only things I know that used spraycool technology were big machines 
like Crays and ?? Thinking Machines ?? which dunked circuit boards in 
freon and sprayed the liquid to keep it moving. Surely they can't have 
revived that :)

AndyC




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