Comments on: Servers you can cook with http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/servers-you-can-cook-with/ Your daily IT cuppa Sun, 23 Jan 2011 07:05:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matt Simmons http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/servers-you-can-cook-with/comment-page-1/#comment-7121 Matt Simmons Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:03:02 +0000 http://www.openxtra.co.uk/blog/?p=1223#comment-7121 This is an interesting trend. The idea that computers don't have to live in refrigerators is good for power, but it's still a matter of degrees (no pun intended). Part of the reason we keep the temperatures as low as we do is to create a buffer. Run your machines closer to their upper level, and in the event of a cooling failure you have less time to work with. As long as people give themselves the same sort of buffer with the higher temperatures, then I think this is a good change. This is an interesting trend. The idea that computers don’t have to live in refrigerators is good for power, but it’s still a matter of degrees (no pun intended). Part of the reason we keep the temperatures as low as we do is to create a buffer. Run your machines closer to their upper level, and in the event of a cooling failure you have less time to work with.

As long as people give themselves the same sort of buffer with the higher temperatures, then I think this is a good change.

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