Immersion Cooling - anyone using it at work / non play use?

[dbwillis]

Due to some urgent projects that need to get done, and AC upgrades being delayed due to parts (meaning our equipment rooms are a no go since the cooling cant support the new projects).....management went on and bought 2 full kits of immersion cooling.
Just arrived Monday on the freight truck, havent unboxed them yet.
Believe they went with GRC 'IceRaq' https://www.grcooling.com/iceraq/

 

[deaedius]

This will be perfect to cool modern CPU's and GPU's.

 

[dbwillis]

Vendor was finishing up the hardware stuff today.
2 units installed, 22U each side/42U per unit
Space for switches in the front dry area, close to your belly lol
Space for mounting PDU on the opposite side of the server space (also dry area)

 

[1337Goat]

Seems like a bad idea in a lot of ways, but to be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if management secretly thought it'd be really cool to do this and went for it anyways.
It's just not a very practical solution, and even if it works, it doesn't seem like it'd be cheap either. But nonetheless, I still approve and would love to see what sort of temps and performance you get.
Do you think it's providing more performance than just air?

 

[cdabc123]

I want to build a thermoelectric immersion system. But water blocks seen superior for most scales of systems.

It would be easy/feasible to do a GPU or fpga cluster. But most of my need for systems like that is mining and for that the cheapest and simplist prevails.

 

[cdabc123]

Seems like a bad idea in a lot of ways, but to be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if management secretly thought it'd be really cool to do this and went for it anyways.
It's just not a very practical solution, and even if it works, it doesn't seem like it'd be cheap either. But nonetheless, I still approve and would love to see what sort of temps and performance you get.
Do you think it's providing more performance than just air?

If you design the system and order at an appropriate scale a server cluster cooled like this is efficiant enough. The problem is the custom racks and really why do you need coolin like that. Server cpus have a very comfertable thermal envolope on air and few accelerators can really utilize the improved cooling. Maybe If you were in a area chilled water was abundant and preferred

 

[dbwillis]

We plan to put our render farm workers in the'tubs'
Tech doing the install says HP now has PSU where you can disable the fans, as well as onboard fans that can be disabled.
Servers mount face down in the tubs, cabling at the top
He says GPU cards take very well to immersion cooling and that AMD CPU are hotter around the edges, where Intel CPU are hotter in the middle.
Amd take better to immersion cooling