Hyperconverged infrastructure is so hot right now it needs liquid cooling

Hyperconverged infrastructure most often involves a collection of modest 2U servers powered by mid-range processors that aren’t particularly challenging to operate. But Lenovo’s new models packing Xeon 6 processors may need liquid cooling. The Chinese hardware giant yesterday launched “ThinkAgile HX Series GPT-in-a-Box …

[Pascal Monett]

"HCI is often touted as a fine candidate for installation [..] at the network edge"

So let me get this straight : networking is getting so complex that we're going to have to have a 2U server rack with 6 core Xeons and 2 Nvidia H100s just to read El Reg ?

Maybe we could tone down government snooping a bit and get back to regular GB fiber on a 6cm² box ?

[Jou (Mxyzptlk)]

Runtime with defective cooling

If the cooling stops, how long until shutdown? How long until forced turn off? Enough time for a clean shutdown? Or will it be like pre Pentium 4 era, where your x86 CPU literally exploded if the cooler did not sit right??

[Will Godfrey]

Re: Runtime with defective cooling

Maybe they just need to hyperventilate.

Hey! Don't push. I was already leaving.