The Texas Tech Red Raiders came to the SC12 Student Cluster Competition with a truly impressive plan. They engineered and built a completely unique immersive cooling solution that looks to be incredibly efficient and, well, incredibly cheap. They took inexpensive and commonly available components, built an enclosure, and combined it all into a homegrown server deep-fryer that shows a lot of promise. In the video they walk us through their configuration, which includes a marine bilge pump, an automobile transmission fluid radiator, and computer case fans.
Unfortunately, we won’t see the true promise of this system. While the team arrived in Salt Lake City without any problem, their hardware didn’t – their system never even made it into the U.S. But all is not lost. In true Student Cluster Competition tradition, other teams (U of Texas and Purdue) gave Texas Tech some spare servers, and vendor partners Dell and Mellanox scoured the show floor to get even more gear to the Red Raider team. So they’ll still be able to compete, but we won’t see anything close to the numbers that their planned system should have delivered.
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