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> Cooling is one of the lowest priority problems when designing a mainframe CPU That's not true at all. Next to power deliver, power removal--aka HVAC--is next
by staycoolboy 6y ago
> Cooling is one of the lowest priority problems when designing a mainframe CPU
That's not true at all. Next to power deliver, power removal--aka HVAC--is next in line of recurring costs (after one-time costs of building the facility and the initial server BOM).
For example: https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2008/11/cost-of-power-in-large-scale-data-centers/ https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2008/11/cost-of-power-in-l...
Unless by "mainframe" you mean specialty compute-server farm for a supercomputer (with massive IO) then perhaps.
- fomine3 6y agoIBM z chip is for mainframe and it's too expensive and normally not massively scaled out compared to cloud servers.