alt Hacker NewsThe "innovation" is that everything is now attached to a watercooled block.
The rest is marketing: The Cray supercomputer were fluid cooled back in the 1980's, the entire board had an inert liquid flowing across it.
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frollogaston • today at 12:53 AM
The innovation is being able to run the chips at higher temps without ruining them too quickly.
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indigo945 • today at 8:40 AM
> The Cray supercomputer were fluid cooled back in the 1980's, the entire
> board had an inert liquid flowing across it.
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maxnevermind • today at 4:06 AM
> everything is now attached to a watercooled block
Does it increases manufacturing and operational cost of such racks?
fennec-posix • yesterday at 11:26 PM
My partner lamented the same thing... Cray was doing this 40+ years ago
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When my grandpa retired from Monsanto chemical back in the 90s, I helped him clean out his office and got a tour of a bunch of stuff.
He showed me their Cray, which had its own dedicated computer room, and they set it up with the coolant pump and fountain unit right in the middle in front of a glass wall facing the hallway so everyone could gawk at it.