Brainstorming Further Cooling Improvements To The Linux Benchmarking Room

[droidhacker]

Porcelain tiles certainly CAN handle the load. HOWEVER, they will only hold the load if you are very confident that you can put them down absolutely correctly. A point load on a tile with a large unsupported gap WILL break.

While a tile floor will transfer some heat, I would seriously doubt that it would make much of a dent on the amount of heat that you've got going on in there.

There is a reason why a geothermal heating/cooling system needs a big grid of underground pipes BEYOND the house in order to work.


I honestly think that your best option would be to not run so much equipment all of the time.

[grigi]

Ah, thanks for the clarification Michael.

As droidhacker said, regardless of how you underlay tiles, you need to glue the tiles effectively. Tile Glue (a cementy-like substance) should be applied evenly (there is this comb-like tool to spread the glue in strips), and then your tiles have both better heat transfer and stronger strength. I have seen builders use a splotching approach to glue tiles, and it always results in badly cracked tiles.

[Michael]

Ah, thanks for the clarification Michael.

As droidhacker said, regardless of how you underlay tiles, you need to glue the tiles effectively. Tile Glue (a cementy-like substance) should be applied evenly (there is this comb-like tool to spread the glue in strips), and then your tiles have both better heat transfer and stronger strength. I have seen builders use a splotching approach to glue tiles, and it always results in badly cracked tiles.

Yep, I've done it before, but usually I leave the mortaring and grouting to my wife since she has more patience and more of a perfectionist than I am that she takes the time to ensure it's all right.

[Michael]

I honestly think that your best option would be to not run so much equipment all of the time.

Besides the benefit of more public test data, the systems are useful for stressing the phoronix-test-suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org.

Just last week I was alerted to some bottlenecks in Phoromatic, which I didn't end up even seeing myself since I don't have a 5,000 system cluster of PTS benchmark systems

[wazoo42]

One small note regarding solar. The federal tax rebate of 30 % was just renewed until the end of 2019. After that it will be 26 % for 2020/2021.

[steven32]

You can get inspired by African technology: http://www.nation.co.ke/business/see...z/-/index.html and https://celac.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/54/

Build such a sun-oriented charcoal tunnel and then suck the air from that tunnel in your server room.

Other cooling methods here: http://en.permaculturescience.org/en...ooling-science

[balperi]

I think you best bet would be to set up a thermal siphon, if possible.