Comments on: Atos Defends Its Supercomputing Turf With New Exascale Iron https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/02/16/atos-defends-its-supercomputing-turf-with-new-exascale-iron/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Thu, 16 Jun 2022 02:59:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Paul Berry https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/02/16/atos-defends-its-supercomputing-turf-with-new-exascale-iron/#comment-179065 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 15:26:25 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140036#comment-179065 In reply to Eric Olson.

I’m not sure the real use case for immersion cooling in hpc. Cray2 and T90 used that technology, but they consumed hundreds of kilowatts, but spread across thousands of surface-mount gate-arrays on dozens of boards. The wattage per total unit volume was very high, but not concentrated point-loads. As such, putting individual liquid cooling blocks on components was impractical.
For a modern hpc server immersion cooling would put the coolant right in contact with the component, rather than across a copper water-block, saving a degree or two of delta-T, but at a very high cost with regards to reliability, maintainability, weighs a lot, and often hurts space efficiency, as all parts have to be extracted from a tank vertically.

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By: Hubert https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/02/16/atos-defends-its-supercomputing-turf-with-new-exascale-iron/#comment-177802 Fri, 18 Feb 2022 19:26:32 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140036#comment-177802 The faceplate design is a Turing pattern (nice)

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By: Eric Olson https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/02/16/atos-defends-its-supercomputing-turf-with-new-exascale-iron/#comment-177624 Thu, 17 Feb 2022 17:35:14 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140036#comment-177624 Removing 95 to 96 percent of the heat through liquid cooling sound good. Is there any news about immersion cooled exascale HPC?

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By: Logan Bingham https://www.nextplatform.com/2022/02/16/atos-defends-its-supercomputing-turf-with-new-exascale-iron/#comment-177609 Thu, 17 Feb 2022 10:19:20 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=140036#comment-177609 Here is the correct link to Portals.

https://www.sandia.gov/portals/history/

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