supercomputer Ideas on SuperCooling Supercomputer

[Ketterer]

.So I was thinking, what are some ways that we could rethink cooling for supercomputers, I propose 3 ideas that came to my mind. It was  actually  my first thought that was most crazy and the third is more realistic but here they are.  

 

Idea #1 - Subaquatic Deep Sea, Water Cooled Super Computer

Ok image  a large submarine deep down in the that intakes large supplies of very cold water and easily expels it away upwards into currents.

 

Small Ps.

i even thought it could be nuclear powered and and just be super powerfully, this also applies to the next idea

 

Idea #2 - Use the Cold Cold Vacuum of Space

This one explains it self. After I first thought edit it I figured this just already be used on the ISS but I found that the first supercomputer in space was out up let year and only did on teraflop.

But what if we could shield the CPUs and GPUs from radiation but open then up to the frigid vacuum of space. Think of the ease of cooling.

The other option in space is using them to heat the living quarters or any other areas requiring heat but that isn't as cool.

 

Idea #3 - Great Canadian North. Linus are you paying attention

Why hasn't either someone privately out even our government putting any thought into using the natural for of caffeine winter to cool their data centers. just build outdoor weather proof data centers and supercomputers.

 

Does anyone know if any of this are being used or maybe have failed for what ever reason? Can you think of other kind of crazy ways to cool a computer. Maybe this kind of thing is what they need to do to further quantum computing.

 

 

 

Big ps.

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[BobVonBob]

1 is being tested right now, Microsoft Project Natick

 

2 is proposed, but launching stuff into space is super expensive right now so that's a no go. Not to mention space is actually really really bad at getting rid of heat through conventional means, since there's nothing to carry the heat away. You also need radiation hardening, which is also incredibly expensive.

 

3 is already in use. Building data centers in cold climates is already being done, but not too cold since super cold places tend to have bad internet lines, and you need good internet to run a data center.

[LukeLinusFanFic]

The problem with 2. Is that when you're in space it can get too cold, and you end up needing to heat it up...

[FloRolf]

Remember that big ass data centers don't run on a single 1gbit LAN cable but rather multiple 100gbit connections. Building that infrastructure (especially in space) is quite expensive aswell. 

[Mehmy]

#1 is being tested by Microsoft. Quite an interesting solution

#2 space has little/no air.. So there's nowhere for the heat to go (also getting the data to/from space would take forever)

no comments on #3

[AnonymousGuy]

Every idea you can possibly have for cooling or locating a datacenter has already been considered/implemented, probably 20 or more years ago.  There's seawater, groundwater, arctic air cooled datacenters already.