[Beowulf] urgent: cost of fire suppression?

[Greg Lindahl]

You live in Australia, right? Halon systems leak all the time, it's
not only discharge due to fires that's an issue.

The oldest machine room I've ever "owned" had a grandfathered,
ozone-destroying AC system that leaked... a lot.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 08:54:25AM -0500, Stu Midgley wrote:
> 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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