[Beowulf] Power per area

[Jeff Johnson]

Scott,

It's not immersion but it's a different approach to the conventional rack
cooling approach. It's really cool (literally and figuratively). They're
based here in San Diego.

https://ddcontrol.com/

--Jeff

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 12:37 PM Scott Atchley <e.scott.atchley at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am wondering whether immersion cooling makes sense. We are most limited
> by datacenter floor space. We can manage to bring in more power (up to 40
> MW for Frontier) and install more cooling towers (ditto), but we cannot
> simply add datacenter space. We have asked to build new building and the
> answer has been consistently "No."
>
> Summit is mostly water cooled. Each node has cold plates on the CPUs and
> GPUs. Fans are needed to cool the memory and power supplies and is captured
> by rear-door heart exchangers. It occupies roughly 5,600 ft^2. With 200 PF
> of performance and 14 MW of power, that is 36 TF/ft^2 and 2.5 kW/ft^2.
>
> I am wondering what the comparable performance and power is per square
> foot for the densest, deployed (not theoretical) immersion cooled systems.
> Any ideas?
>
> To make the exercise even more fun, what is the weight per square foot for
> immersion systems? Our data centers have a limit of 250 or 500 pounds per
> square foot. I expect immersion systems to need higher loadings than that.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
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