[Beowulf] liquid cooling for HPC

[Jörg Saßmannshausen]

Hi John,

I got a cluster room which has heatspots of 30 C (as the AC company installed 
the AC simply wrong here).

I need to put in more stuff in that room as that is the only floor space left 
here. Fortunately, we got a chilled water system so that would take care of 
the removal of the excess heat. However, we also got a very cold staircase 
close by and I would like to see the heat dissipating there. At least in the 
winter time it does make more sense to heat up the staircase in a Chemistry 
building instead of a inner court yard. 

Regards

Jörg

On Wednesday 05 December 2012 12:47:11 you wrote:
> We use racks with water cooled doors.
> 
> The new SGI ICE X clusters have cold plates between pairs of nodes, so use
> the sort of direct water cooling you are talking about.
> 
> It  depends what you want to achieve - what sort of space you want to put
> the system into, And do you have a good supply of chilled water?
> 
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