Touring the Liquid Cooling Lab

We take a tour of the CoolIT Liquid Lab in Calgary Canada to see how liquid cooling systems are prototyped and tested for next-generation server CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators. This is the lab where we filmed our recent Gigabyte liquid-cooled server review and we show a number of steps in the process.

Note: As mentioned, CoolIT paid for my travel up to Calgary to film this but it was done editorially independently and they did not get to review the video before it went live.

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00:00 Introduction
03:16 Prototyping Parts
05:39 Assembling Liquid Cooling Loops
06:32 Temperature and Pressure Testing
08:02 Fluid Compatibility and Rack Level Integration Testing
09:55 Data Center Simulator Container
11:26 Why Innovate? 40kW to 1 Megawatt CDUs
13:37 Why Liquid Cooling in the Future?
16:25 The "L-word"

[cromefire_]

I love those on-the-floor videos, it's great to have someone on the datacenter side of things. There are many doing consumer and gaming, but you really help complement that with a prosumer and datacenter perspective on things.

[rem]

Great video. I love seeing the high end computing and also when you show water cooling systems

[zoopercoolguy]

Looks like CoolIT was using motorcycle names for their machines in the Liquid Lab. Pretty neat.

[Jsteeezz]

Love this because water cooling is pretty cool for consumer products, but with servers it has to be designed to be extremely reliable. And inevitably these advancements trickle down to consumer products too. Also if you want to even use the top of the line upcoming products coming out its basically required.

[shephusted]

the new article on sth - 400gx64 switch is pretty awesome - dual 400g cards for almost 1t of bw? with new mi300, cxl things are getting much spicier for hpc and all this tech will trickle down faster than smb move to 10g - the key is that nvme is so scalable - bonded 400g will be great for big nvme raid0 arrays - the cooling is just another part of the chain needed to have reliable sla #swr matching #counterpoise #block device #netfs benchmarks

[jolness]

Great video!
Definitely impressive the level of r&d and the stringent validation that is done reassures me a ton.

[Foiliagegaming]

IT admin of a small company: "guys we need to upgrade our servers to these"
Company: "why would we need that?"
Admin: "don't ask dumb questions"

[j_official]

I use an aio on my box but it’s real cool to see liquid cooling deployed on a much larger level. Thanks!!!

[maxheadrom]

This is pretty cool! (pun not intended) You, sir, explains pretty well! I like how you added the inserts to explain the details.

[jasonhotchkiss]

The quality of these videos keep getting better. Very engaging and interesting! Keep it up!

[spiralout]

Wow that has to be the cleanest HAAS I've ever seen!

[ewenchan]

I still have the CFD pictures from when I was trying to design my own waterblock for the Socket 940 AMD Opteron back in around either 2006 or 2007.

It's definitely interesting to me, because I was already talking about the necessity of water/liquid cooling back then, so it's nice to see it being talked about/covered here, and now, 15 years later.

[flynn]

You're such a great video host! Thanks for posting this video - super informative.

[jfkastner]

CoolIT has some really cool solutions, Liquid is the only way to cool high power compute nodes! Thanks, Patrick!

[benjamintrathen]

Bunch of genius engineers in the same facility, what could go wrong.

[hstreub]

Looks like they are using Raspberry Pis for those CDUs for some function

[Agent_Crimson]

Damn it. I saw him at the airport I thought I recognized him but I disregarded it as I have confused people before. Frick should have asked for a photo

[EmanonUser]

Patrick rolling in like a dark souls boss

[Veptis]

I really hope that those advancements in liquid cooling technology for data center and super computers trickle down to consumer workstation.

[AchwaqKhalid]

Liquid cooling is the only advancement that will allow regular everyday consumers to integrate those servers into their home setups 💪