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Seymour Cray referred to himself as an "overpaid plumber" for good reason. Heat management has been a critical element of high performance computing for a long time


If I recall, one iteration of their products sprayed a shower of cooled liquid Fluorinert[1] directly into the processor cards, with no heatsinks at all. [2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorinert [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2


It was fully immersed! The Fluorinert was circulated through the stacked cards, then re-chilled with a cold water heat exchanger.




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