Parts/Cooling/Single-phase immersion
Cooling · Immersion · 2015
Single-phase immersion
Full submersion in dielectric fluid. Rare at national-lab scale, more common in crypto-derived buildouts.
Why this part
Submerge the entire board in a non-conductive fluid and the cooling problem largely disappears: no fans, no cold plates, no air path, and heat capacity orders of magnitude above air. It is rare at national-laboratory scale for reasons that have little to do with thermodynamics. Servicing a board means lifting it dripping out of a tank, no major vendor's warranty assumes it, and the fluid itself is a supply chain and an environmental question of its own. It is far more common in crypto-derived buildouts, where the hardware is uniform, disposable and nobody is maintaining a warranty.
Systems using this part
- Systems
- 5
- Rmax underneath
- 43.39 PFlop/s
- Units recorded
- -
| System | Role | Country | Units | System Rmax | Supplied by | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frontera 2019-06 | Cooling | USA | - | 23.52 PFlop/s | Dell Technologies | #5 → |
| Bubba 2019-05 | Cooling | USA | - | - | DUG Technology | - |
| Gyoukou 2017-06 | Cooling | Japan | - | 19.14 PFlop/s | ExaScaler | #4 → |
| Shoubu 2015 | Cooling | Japan | - | 610.00 TFlop/s | ExaScaler | #136 → |
| TSUBAME-KFC 2013-10 | Cooling | Japan | - | 125.20 TFlop/s | Institute of Science Tokyo | #1 → |
“Units recorded” sums only the edges where a public source states a quantity. It is a floor, not a total, and should never be read as installed base.