On 1/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Deepak Jain</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:deepak@ai.net">deepak@ai.net</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>Speaking as the operator of at least one datacenter that was originally<br>built to water cool mainframes... Water is not hard to deal with, but it<br>has its own discipline, especially when you are dealing with lots of it
<br>(flow rates, algicide, etc). And there aren&#39;t lots of great manifolds to<br>allow customer (joe-end user) service-able connections (like how many<br>folks do you want screwing with DC power supplies/feeds without some
<br>serious insurance)..<br><br>Once some standardization comes to this, and valves are built to detect<br>leaks, etc... things will be good.<br><br>DJ<br></blockquote></div><br><br>In the long run, I think this is going to solve a lot of problems, as cooling the equipment with a water medium is more effective then trying to pull the heat off of everything with air. But standardization is going to take a bit.
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