What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes)

Thu Aug 30 04:10:59 UTC 2001

The crays were liquid nitrogen cooled, using mercury would be really a bad idea
since its a pretty good conductor.
ak

Alex Rubenstein wrote:

> 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:
> >
> >
> >
> > >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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