rack power question

Tue Mar 25 17:56:03 UTC 2008

There are vendors working on this, but the point here is that unlike the 
medical, automotive or aerospace industries.... Computing (in general) 
platforms aren't regulated the same way... you won't see random gear 
hanging off the inside of an MRI (in general), or in an airplane, etc.

Computer vendors make lots of random sizes and depths of boxes. Want to 
get really ambitious? Let's find a set of rails that works with all 
rackmountable equipment and cabinets before we get crazy with the water 
cooling.

The point is that water has lots of issues. Water quality being one of 
them. Its fine to "toy" with water cooling a home clocked-up PC. When 
you have experience water cooling mainframes or using large chiller 
plants (1000+ tons) for years on end, there is a lot of discipline 
required to "do it right" -- a discipline that many shops and operators 
haven't needed up to this point.

Deepak Jain
AiNET

Alexander Harrowell wrote:
> I still think the industry needs to standardise water cooling to 
> popularise it; if there were two water ports on all the pizzaboxes next 
> to the RJ45s, and a standard set of flexible pipes, how many people 
> would start using it? There's probably a medical, automotive or 
> aerospace standard out there.