November 20th, 2007
Neat picture: Computer running in a fish tank
Yes, that’s a real computer and a monitor submerged in a fish tank, with the power on. I found this while I was sorting through the leftover pictures I took from SC07. It has not been photoshopped. Here’s a high res version if you’d like a closer look.
[See: Full coverage of the SuperComputing 2007 conference.]
What’s the trick? That’s not water. It’s a “non-conductive, non-flammable, non-toxic and environmentally friendly” liquid, used by the Angstrom LiquiBlade system. According to the company, their high-density blade servers “eliminate the need for data center air-conditioning, saving nearly 25% of a data center’s electricity budget. Angstrom LiquiBlades are design to cool the latest AMD Opteron™ processors using a non-conductive fluid instead of water, thus eliminating the risk of data center disruption due to spillage.”
For more pictures from SC07 (all 566 of them!) see my Flickr SC07 set.
Ed Burnette is a professional developer and author of several articles and books about computing including Hello, Android: Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform, 2nd Edition. For disclosure of Ed's industry affiliations, click here or to view his full profile click here.
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