What is the limit? (was RE: multi-homing fixes) (fwd)
Larry Sheldon
lsheldon at creighton.edu
Thu Aug 30 10:23:19 UTC 2001
> > > Err. Water and electricvity make a dangerous mix.
> >
> > Ya. My air handling systems seem to deal with it OK.
>
> They are kept in different places. Now think how are you going to combine
> hot-swappability and water cooling, and not let moisture to get out :)
I don't recall seeing any mops around when the CE's replaced a board
on the 1100/90's. They were not "hot-swappable"--but nobody had thought
of _that_ as a good marketing drool. We had "redundant" equipment and
took the broken one off-line to work on it.
[snip]
> As soon as you do liquid cooling the price goes up an order of magnitude.
>
> This is as simple as that.
Be interesting to know where that came from. Particularly when you consider
the "liquid-cooled" versus "can't do it" costs.
> My take is that the real answer is to move from heavy, sticky electrons to
> photons; the trick is to get them to interact in useful ways :)
Had your finger on an operating LASER lately?
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