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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
-
0 of 5 edges disclose a quantity
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.

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