[Beowulf] clustering using off the shelf systems in a fish tank full of oil.

[Douglas Eadline]

However, if you really overclock, you can make french fries

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> There has been a company at the SC conferences for the past 3 years
> trying to sell exactly that (server cooling by submersion in mineral
> oil) for the past 3 years.
>
> In my opinion it, suffers from a few major problems:
>
> 1. It's messy. If you every have to take hardware out of the oil to
> repair/replace, it's messy. The oil could drip all over, creating safety
> hazards. And if you need to remove a hardware component from a server,
> good luck! Now that everything is oily and slippery, there definitely
> will be a problem with that hard drive once it flies out of your hands,
> even if there wasn't a problem with it before!
>
> 2. The weight of the mineral oil. Despite the density of current 1-U and
> blade systems, I still think that air makes up a not-significant
> percentage of volume of the full rack. Fill that space with a liquid
> like mineral oil, and I'm sure you double, triple, or maybe even
> quadruple the weight load on your datacenter's raised floor.
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> http://msds.farnam.com/m000712.htm
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> On 12/23/2011 2:32 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
>>
>> I am just curious as to everyones take on this
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtufuXLvOok
>>
>> Being able to over clock the systems how much more performance gains can
>> one get out of them
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