[103313] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: rack power question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Tue Mar 25 14:14:20 2008
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:56:03 -0400
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Reply-To: deepak@ai.net
To: Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
CC: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>,
Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>, michael.dillon@bt.com,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <a2b2d0480803250531w6c19ce76mb538994fff4ab2b8@mail.gmail.com>
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There are vendors working on this, but the point here is that unlike the
medical, automotive or aerospace industries.... Computing (in general)
platforms aren't regulated the same way... you won't see random gear
hanging off the inside of an MRI (in general), or in an airplane, etc.
Computer vendors make lots of random sizes and depths of boxes. Want to
get really ambitious? Let's find a set of rails that works with all
rackmountable equipment and cabinets before we get crazy with the water
cooling.
The point is that water has lots of issues. Water quality being one of
them. Its fine to "toy" with water cooling a home clocked-up PC. When
you have experience water cooling mainframes or using large chiller
plants (1000+ tons) for years on end, there is a lot of discipline
required to "do it right" -- a discipline that many shops and operators
haven't needed up to this point.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
Alexander Harrowell wrote:
> I still think the industry needs to standardise water cooling to
> popularise it; if there were two water ports on all the pizzaboxes next
> to the RJ45s, and a standard set of flexible pipes, how many people
> would start using it? There's probably a medical, automotive or
> aerospace standard out there.
