[Beowulf] Project Natick

[Prentice Bisbal]

I should also add that Chris' URL provides a much better shot of the 
racks going into the capsule, where you can see heat exchangers and 
their fans are incorporate into the rack structure itself. In the 
picture I commented on yesterday, you couldn't see that. It just looked 
like the computer racks from that angle.

On 06/06/2018 09:13 PM, Chris Samuel wrote:
> On Thursday, 7 June 2018 12:34:54 AM AEST Prentice Bisbal wrote:
>
>> Has anybody seen any more details on how the cooling actually occurs withing
>> the capsule?
> There's a bit more here:
>
> https://datacenterfrontier.com/the-watery-edge-microsoft-deploys-undersea-servers-in-scotland/
>
> # A key change from the prototype was in the cooling system, where Naval Group
> # adapted a heat-exchange process commonly used for cooling submarines,
> # piping seawater directly through the radiators on the back of each of the 12
> # server racks and back out into the ocean.
>
> So water cooled doors, but presumably hardened against the corrosive
> properties of sea water?
>
>> What is interesting is that these servers are all equipped with FPGAs:
> Going after the bitcoin crowd perhaps?
>
> cheers,
> Chris