Comments on: Iceotope Immersion Cooling and Valvoline Fluid at SC24 https://www.servethehome.com/iceotope-immersion-cooling-and-valvoline-fluid-at-sc24/ Server and Workstation Reviews Sun, 22 Dec 2024 09:04:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: n/a https://www.servethehome.com/iceotope-immersion-cooling-and-valvoline-fluid-at-sc24/#comment-596441 Sun, 22 Dec 2024 09:04:05 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=82533#comment-596441 @Stephen Beets

WHO recommends no more than 2.5kg a day for an average weight adult male when ingested as a food additive. Wouldn’t call PG “toxic”…

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By: Stephen Beets https://www.servethehome.com/iceotope-immersion-cooling-and-valvoline-fluid-at-sc24/#comment-594780 Thu, 12 Dec 2024 01:29:30 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=82533#comment-594780 @fuzzyfuzzyfungus

Thanks. So… probably the same stuff as in the coolant in your car. That’s good. Toxic in “too much” amounts, but not environmentally dangerous in the same way as PFA-based formulas. Just the answer I was looking for. Again, thank you. I rate your reply five stars. :-)

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By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus https://www.servethehome.com/iceotope-immersion-cooling-and-valvoline-fluid-at-sc24/#comment-594557 Mon, 09 Dec 2024 14:06:59 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=82533#comment-594557 I assume that it’s not necessarily easy to tell from the tech demo; but is there any sign of whether going horizontal makes preventing spills and creep more difficult?

Looks like they’ve brought out a bunch of low-ish speed interfaces on pigtails; which should be fine for GigE BMC connections, VGA, USB, and the like; but which seems much less helpful for the sort of high speed interfaces that you are going to see on systems that are worth the hassle of immersion cooling.

Do they have similar options for multiple 100GbE connection scenarios? Is the comparatively innocuous and low cost thermal material intended to make drain-to-service an acceptable options for a lot of things where ports that don’t leak would be too fiddly?

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By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus https://www.servethehome.com/iceotope-immersion-cooling-and-valvoline-fluid-at-sc24/#comment-594556 Mon, 09 Dec 2024 13:59:38 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=82533#comment-594556 @Stephen Beets, as best I can tell from Valvoline’s site: https://www.valvolineglobal.com/en/valvoline-heat-transfer-fluids-pg/

and running the product name through their SDS lookup(which doesn’t seem to generate direct links; but is linked to on the product page); it’s an unspecified concentration of propylene glycol; presumably along with various anticorrosion things; rather than a fluorocarbon based chemistry.

When the SDS is claiming that the concentration of the primary ingredient is a trade secret at precisions greater than a 10% band it’s not necessarily a comprehensive rundown of exactly how the sausage is made; but it’s definitely not one of the historical mostly fluorine chemistry ones whose biological inertness has not panned out as intended.

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By: Stephen Beets https://www.servethehome.com/iceotope-immersion-cooling-and-valvoline-fluid-at-sc24/#comment-594499 Mon, 09 Dec 2024 01:42:21 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=82533#comment-594499 Do they say what the cooling fluid is made of? Seems like not too long ago y’all had an article about direct-immersion cooling fluids containing PFAs which are harmful to the environment as well as IT maintenance personnel health. Would be nice if Valvoline could weigh in on this as it’s kind of important.

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