On 05/11/2015 06:50 PM, Brandon Martin wrote:
8kW/rack is something it seems many a typical computing oriented
datacenter would be used to dealing with, no? Formfactor within the
rack is just a little different which may complicate how you can
deliver the cooling - might need unusually forceful forced air or a
water/oil type heat exchanger for the oil immersion method being
discussed elsewhere in the thread.
You still need giant wires and busses to move 800A worth of current. ...
This thread brings me back to 1985, what with talk of full immersion
cooling (Fluorinert, anyone?) and hundreds of amps at 5VDC.... reminds
me of the Cray-2, which dropped 150-200KW in 6 rack location units of
space; 2 for the CPU itself, 2 for space, and 2 for the cooling
waterfall [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cray2.jpeg by referencing
floor tile space occupied and taking 16 sq ft (four tiles) as one RLU
]. Each 'stack' of the CPU pulled 2,200A at 5V [source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2#History ]. At those currents you
use busbar, not wire. Our low-voltage (120/208V three-phase) switchgear
here uses 6,000A rated busbar, so it's readily available, if expensive.
