While immersive cooling has been around since at least the Cray-2 supercomputer, we don’t know of any large-scale HPC deployments beyond a few test machines such as the Tsubame-KFC in Japan and the CRC cluster at TACC. Until now.
Source: insideHPC
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Cooling tanks under construction for the Bubba Supercomputer
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DUG CTO Phil Schwan presenting at Rice Oil & Gas conference March 5, 2019
McCloud HPC service being built by Australia’s DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) outside Houston is set to become the largest oil and gas cloud in the world this year, providing 250 single-precision petaflops for DUG’s geoscience services business and its expanding HPC-as-a-service
Source: HPCwire
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Houston data center construction ramped up in 2018, with a major prelease by an Australian oil and gas company driving the additions to the market, according to a CBRE report.
Source: Houston Chronicle
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look inside a DUG immersion-cooled data hall, showing the cooling enclosures filled with diecletric fluid and the piping where the cooling loop enters the enclosure. The Skybox deployment will use more than 700 of these tanks. (Photo: DownUnder GeoSolutions)
One of the world’s most powerful computing systems is coming to Houston, featuring over 40,000 servers immersed in liquid coolant. The massive system from DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) is expected to deliver 250 petaflops – more computing power than the world’s top supercomputers.
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Largest Colocation Data Center Transaction in Houston’s History at 15 Megawatts
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Australia-based DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG) announced today it has selected Skybox Datacenters and Houston, Texas for its global expansion of a revolutionary oil and gas exploration technology.
Source: Purpose Media Group, Carey Marin