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The more compelling discussion to me is why not use open air cooling. I worked in an HPC environment when it was in the single digits outside, and our cold ais
by phamilton 15y ago
The more compelling discussion to me is why not use open air cooling. I worked in an HPC environment when it was in the single digits outside, and our cold aisle was in the low 70s. (The hot aisle was ~100 F, which felt pretty nice on a cold day).
- jwilliams 15y agoIntel has been looking at this for a while - and had quite a few successful experiments (OP is probably aware of this). I think the stumbling point is the HDDs, which have a much higher rate of failure when the temperature has a high degree of variation.