[103519] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: rack power question, and a prediction about "direct heat removal" (DHR)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Apr 4 10:38:27 2008
To: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:58:31 EDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:34:34 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:58:31 EDT, Patrick Giagnocavo said:
> My guess is that someone will come up with an inexpensive, reliable way
> to put a heat collector, which will basically look like a car radiator
> the size of a rear rack door, directly behind the hot air coming from
> the systems in the rack.
You tuned in late, unless you're focusing on "inexpensive". See the recent
thread on "cooling door". The problem with a heat collector on the back of
the rack is that having collected the heat, you need to put it someplace
else - in the case of the IBM unit, it's moved elsewhere via chilled water.
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