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tonyarkles
on Jan 6, 2020
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Performance variation in ‘identical’ processors
If I recall, one iteration of their products sprayed a shower of cooled liquid Fluorinert[1] directly into the processor cards, with no heatsinks at all. [2]
[1]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorinert
[2]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2
Baeocystin
on Jan 6, 2020
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It was fully immersed! The Fluorinert was circulated through the stacked cards, then re-chilled with a cold water heat exchanger.
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[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorinert [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2