[Beowulf] Innovative liquid cooling

Joe Landman landman at scalableinformatics.com
Wed Mar 6 08:56:07 PST 2013


On 03/06/2013 11:48 AM, Hearns, John wrote:
>> Cool-Whip is sold in a tub and is a foamed hydrogenated coconut and palm oil with corn syrup and some foam stabilizers like casein, xanthan gum and guar gum.
>> It can be frozen and thawed (unlike real cream).  Apparently, they started adding a small amount of skim milk to it in 2010.  (From a Kosher standpoint, CoolWhip was always >considered dairy because of the sodium caseinate, which is made from milk)
> The equivalent in the UK is Angel Delight. I was brought up on it.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Delight
>
> The Wikipedia page has no figure for its thermal conductivity.
> However it is available in several rather nice flavours, each appropriate for different sizes of cluster.

Why not beer as a coolant?  I can see it now

"My cluster is cooled by Guinness"

"Oh yeah?  Mine is cooled by London Pride!"



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