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Keep your server in a fish tank ? It might not be as crazy as it seems. Angstrom Microsystems has developped a liquid that is “non-conductive, non-flammable, non-toxic and environmentally friendly” that can be used as a coolant for computers.
As shows the following picture, you would be able to submerge a computer with its monitor in the liquid, and it would continue to function properly. This demonstration occured at the SuperComputing 2007 conference.
Server cooling is an important challenge for any datacenter, and Angstrom claims its LiquiBaldes product can reduce energy costs by 25%.
“Angstrom LiquiBlades are design to cool the latest AMD Opteron? processors using a non-conductive fluid instead of water, thus eliminating the risk of data center disruption due to spillage.”
Clearly something to keep an eye on !
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November 26th, 2007 3:12 pm
can the fish still live in that tank?
November 26th, 2007 3:20 pm
@David : Good question… you would be at least able to use a fish screen saver.
November 27th, 2007 4:50 pm
Any organic oil can do the trick
November 27th, 2007 7:07 pm
Been done before using Mineral Oil and a radiator would constantly keep your computer at 30 C temperature. Just to note, you can’t submerge a regular HDD or CD drive there because it will kill the mechanical parts. So really, this is just like water cooling but with the “wow” effect of submerging electronic parts in water look like mineral oil
February 3rd, 2008 4:03 am
That server would run so cool it would be great. I don’t know about fixing it though.