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[Beowulf] Interesting google server design

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Greg Lindahl lindahl at pbm.com
Fri Apr 3 16:36:21 PDT 2009


On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 09:14:37AM -0400, Robert G. Brown wrote:

>   b) The idea is to get the heat production OFF the motherboard.  One
> really interesting thing about the google design is that they hang the
> stock OTC power supply off the back, altogether outside of the case

It looks to me like 100% of the airflow through the case goes through
the PS, and in fact the PS fan is the only one driving front-to-back
flow.

-- greg





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