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>> I still dont understand how and why liquid cooling could benefits. Because liquid cooling is only a marginal benefit for current hardware, hardware designed
by sandworm101 5y ago
>> I still dont understand how and why liquid cooling could benefits.
Because liquid cooling is only a marginal benefit for current hardware, hardware designed to be air cooled. If liquid cooling becomes a norm we should start seeing hardware designed with the expectation of liquid cooling. That could mean greater component density and greater power concentration --> greater speeds. One wonders what CPUs would be like if they were designed with the expectation of liquid cooling, water within a millimetre from the heat source rather than the metal heat spreaders that currently top most chips.
How many fans are in a modern server rack? Liquid cooling could theoretically replace all of those with one moving part, one pump impeller.
- meepmorp 5y ago> How many fans are in a modern server rack? Liquid cooling could theoretically replace all of those with one moving part, one pump impeller. Or maybe more than one impeller, because at least with the fans, cooling continues if there's a failure in one of them.
- sandworm101 5y agoWell, perhaps coolant would be delivered to racks at a particular psi/volume just as electricity is today provided at a particular voltage and current. Then an entire datacenter would be served by a handful of massive pumps. Server racks might then have no moving parts, which couldn't harm reliability.
- Nexxius 5y agoA few years back IBM had a test line of liquid cooled modular components. Lovely things had everything connected & sealed and you could stack multiple identical components. Didn't go anywhere at the time but, the idea could be modified and re-implemented these days similar to your suggestions with great benefits.