{"id":5949,"date":"2012-09-05T13:31:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T18:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5949"},"modified":"2012-09-05T13:31:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T18:31:50","slug":"intel-immerses-its-servers-in-oil-and-they-like-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5949","title":{"rendered":"Intel immerses its servers in oil \u2014 and they like it!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The idea of immersing servers in oil to keep them cool isn\u2019t entirely new \u2014 passionate gamers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pugetsystems.com\/submerged.php\">have been housing their systems in vegetable oil for years<\/a>.\u00a0But it\u2019s time to take notice of this trend when Intel starts singing its praises as a potentially revolutionary method for slashing the price of running a data center.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/cloud\/intel-immerses-its-servers-in-oil-and-they-like-it\/\">Intel immerses its servers in oil \u2014 and they like it! \u2014 Cloud Computing News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most servers today follow design principles for optimal airflow, but \u201cwe could throw some of those rules out,\u201d he said, and maybe build a better server. The obvious steps are eliminating anything to do with fans, sealing hard drives (or going to solid-state drives) and replacing any organic materials that might leech into the oil. A redesign of the heat sink probably would be in order, as would a rethinking of where things sit on the motherboard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of immersing servers in oil to keep them cool isn\u2019t entirely new \u2014 passionate gamers have been housing their systems in vegetable oil for years.\u00a0But it\u2019s time to take notice of this trend when Intel starts singing its &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5949\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[694,160,797],"class_list":["post-5949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","tag-heat-sinks","tag-intel","tag-oil-immersion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5950,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5949\/revisions\/5950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}