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The big question is "Will it blend (with the datacenter dynamics, power distribution and cooling)?". Considering a conservative 4GPU system adds a 1.2KW additi
by bayindirh 3y ago
The big question is "Will it blend (with the datacenter dynamics, power distribution and cooling)?".
Considering a conservative 4GPU system adds a 1.2KW additional overhead, packing these together densely in racks is a huge ordeal.
- agilob 3y agoThe big questions is, my heat pump is 2.6 kW, can I remove the heat pump and run 2 of these GPUs instead?
- TeMPOraL 3y agoIf you find a way to extract compute from the work done by a compressor, sure. But then you'll be able to afford the heatpump and any number of GPUs, for the money you get from overturning laws of thermodynamics.
- agilob 3y agoI better start working on it then!
- c_o_n_v_e_x 3y agoConsidering that heat pumps have a coefficient of performance of greater than 1 (meaning they are moving more than 2.6 kw of heat), no. You'd probably need 3 to 5 GPUs to get comparable levels of warmth.
- michaelt 3y agoThese days you can already get water-cooled servers [1] and rack-mount water distribution manifolds [2] [1] https://www.supermicro.com/en/solutions/liquid-cooling https://www.supermicro.com/en/solutions/liquid-cooling [2] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power8?topic=POWER8/p8had/p8had_83x_watercool.html https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power8?topic=POWER8/p8had/p8had_...
- bayindirh 3y agoI mean, we have these, but changing to a bigger CDU just because you decided to get a rack of GPU servers is not always fun/easy/doable. Even if you just upgrade them, then there's the primary loop's capacity.
- agilob 3y agoI can't find it anymore, but I remember reading a few years ago about a watercooled server farm that used an outdoor water fountain. It wasn't a single rack, but a few 100s of them