[Beowulf] urgent: cost of fire suppression?

[Stu Midgley]

and, you know, given the number of times fire supression systems go off in
a computer room, and the nastyness that is released when a computer room
does go up... I'd say far outweigh the environmental issues of a halon
system.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 7:02 AM, Gavin W. Burris <bug at wharton.upenn.edu>
wrote:

> Simulation supplants lots of real-world material testing, not to mention
> the efficiencies eked out by CFD in various applications.  So, an argument
> could be made that HPC is environmentally friendly.  Although, work does
> expand to fill all (cpu)* time.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>
> On Wed 04/20/16 07:21PM EDT, Stu Midgley wrote:
> > in stark contrast to the environmentally friendly-ness of super computers
> > and clusters...
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Jonathan Aquilina <
> jaquilina at eagleeyet.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Halon is no longer used due to its harmful effects on the environment.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2016-04-19 19:32, Per Jessen wrote:
> > >
> > > William Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I can't speak to the cost in dollars, but you my want to define your
> > > goal in fire suppression.
> > > Whether you are trying to just save the building or also have hopes
> > > for data recovery might determine the type of system you employ, be it
> > > plain water sprinklers or some kind of chemical foam.
> > >
> > >
> > > I thought halon gas was the usual choice for datacentres, has that gone
> > > out of fashion?
> > >
> > >
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