[41133] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Wed Aug 29 23:52:13 2001
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 23:58:09 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: Daniel Senie <dts@senie.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
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I recall something about liquid (something, could be nitrogen, or perhaps
even mercury) that was chilled; PC Boards were then submersed in the
liquid to keep cool.
Maybe on Crays?
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Daniel Senie wrote:
>
> At 11:10 PM 8/29/01, Vadim Antonov wrote:
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> >On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Andrew Partan wrote:
> >
> > > I have proposed to various router vendors the possibility of giving
> > > them a chilled water feed instead of lots of cool air. At the
> > > moment they seem to not need it, but I would not be surprized to
> > > find something like this needed at some point.
> >
> >Err. Water and electricvity make a dangerous mix.
>
> And this was not a problem in IBM Mainframe computers because?
>
> I'm not registering an opinion one way or the other at this point on
> whether routers should consider other forms of cooling, but using water or
> other liquids to cool electronics is not a new concept. Properly
> engineered, there is no particular danger.
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