Chilled Water follows Virtualization
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I made a wrong turn and ended up in a power and cooling seminar at the Gartner Infrastructure and Operations Conference in Orlando last week. Having walked in a few minutes late ... I decided to stay and push my education beyond the mainframe rather than making a rapid u-turn after seeing my mistake. Well it seems there is some relatively new technology out there which sprays a non-conductive liquid on processors and system boards in rack mounts. A collector tray catches the liquid and circulates it through heat exchanger tied into chilled water to cool for re-cycling and the spraying / cooling continues.
I was immediately reminded of the new open systems technology a few years ago called "virtualization". before that it was mult-tasking ....
While I'd love to compare the costs of power for 40k Linux servers rack mounted against the costs of a mainframe with zLinux x40k .... I think I'll wait till 2011 when the cost of cooling is anticipated to be 2 times the cost of powering the dense silicon. Gartner states that the cost of cooling today is only 60% of powering .....
I wonder what new technology open systems will 'invent' next year ... maybe a bus and tag system for more robust peripheral communications.
Assurity?
chilled water storage technology
One could use 6,857,278 or it's embodiments to remove his generation charge on his electric bill, the demand charge, or become OFF-PEAK, paying only off-peak rates. It would qualify for gov. energy efficiency incentives, (maybe even gain financial support from the electricity generator for the demand shift), and BRAG about it instead of getting sued for patent infringement.
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