I shouldn’t have kept the $1,000,000 computer

This is the million dollar PC, a very expensive collection of servers that are connected together with an incredible piece of software called WCA that allows them to act as a giant storage server with the ability to reach speeds measured in hundreds of gigabytes per second. and damn, wait a second, it's a little faster than it used to be, that's because the million dooll PC has shined a little. We've scaled from six to nine storage machines, giving us a whopping 2.2 pedabytes of raw PCIe Gen 4 powered by Kokia. storage is almost as much storage as we

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on the hard drives in our Mother Vault, but much faster, which means it's also very power hungry, which means it's also very hot, even with 3 tons of air conditioning in here, there are still 40 changes, which is terrible for the hardware and terrible for any human being who needs to work here.

Now we could add more air conditioning, but that would be even more expensive than this. Know? Not expensive, not one, but six APC tower coolers that we inherited for free. from a local data center, that's right folks, we are water cooling the entire server room and this time I swear we will do it right, where are the plumbers? Well, no, we're really not doing well today. do it right later, okay, we're just going to DIY, that's not what I had in mind when I sold this to our sponsor. build Redux, they make it easy to enter the world of PC gaming, just choose your games and watch the performance. and the professionals at Build Redux will build the PC for you.

Visit Build Redux at the link below. Now, under normal circumstances, you would run chilled water into your data center unit and use that chilled water to cool the air, but cooling the water costs. money and that's what we're trying to avoid, so since we also spend money on heating our warehouse and we

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so many of these things hanging around anyway, we were thinking why not cool the server room and heat the warehouse in the winter , turning this into less of a cooling tower and more of a heating tower, yes it was designed for that, I mean this should work very well, in theory this is a perfect plan in practice, well I guess we're about about to find out, yes, in practice we have a giant cooling tower on a forklift on a mezzanine with no storage capacity water is not heavy 3 2 1 oh okay, yes, that feels great, where exactly do we want it in theory?

It's hot on that side mhm so it's probably pointing in that direction, sure not. It's intuitive because obviously this is the front of the unit so you'd think that's where it sucks the air in, but in an implementation of data center, these cooling towers are located between the servers and the servers will typically draw cold air from the cold aisle in front of them. them and then they heat the air and expel it out the back, so by having these towers between the servers, what happens is that the hot air comes out, it is sucked in by the cooling tower and then it is expelled through this radiator in the middle, expelled from the front. and sucked back into the server, let's put it in the corner pointing that way.

Hi Jake, yeah, what I found out is that one of the things we thought might be a temporal probe earlier is what must have come loose at some point, but these guys are right. here they have little floats, oh they are like the water level, they are for an excess condensation meter, yes when you run cold water through them they can start to condense quite aggressively, we are not doing that so It should be fine, yes I saw the drip pans before and I also saw that there was rust everywhere on the bottom of the units but I didn't realize that was by design although this unit is more intact. it means we haven't modified the fittings yet, so good you did a great job last time, so you want a chance to try to do a great job too, oh, okay, boom One, see you later before we solder them. fittings I want to give you a little background, the tubing inside the unit is 1 inch which is a pretty standard size which is good except I found out that buying 1 inch tubing is not that common and also all the accessories are very expensive and since this is like our DIY approach, although my original plan was to use garden hoses, I discovered that garden hoses are very expensive so we might as well use the things that we are going to use in the long term and since we're going to have to remove it anyway we're going to use shark bites and shark bites are really cool they're basically like you push the tube in and that's all you do now it's fixed it has a warranty of 25 years, it's sick. they are really very expensive, they smell delicious, it took too long, one and two, you have to make sure it is clean before soldering, otherwise the solder doesn't stick, at least that's what Plumbing tick Tok told me, naturally, this is going to happen. be what you would call a closed loop system, meaning it fills with a certain amount of water and shuts off, but only to a point where you have radiant heating in your house, for example, there is a certain amount of water loss. evaporation, so you fill the coolant. and over time, little by little, you lose some of that, the way they move is by using a check valve that is basically connected to the water pressure in your house, which automatically, as something is It evaporates, it fills up a little.

I didn't really want to do it because I want to do it today and I'm not a plumber, but luckily our engine room is right below us and it has a hose bib, so we thought why don't we just connect the hose bib to the tank? then if you just turn it on the tank will overflow and explode and whatever it is, how do we fill a tank? I would like to design a custom system or I could just purchase a toilet fill valve. We have this tank from McMaster Car that We're going to add accessories with these fancy bulkhead accessories, but in the meantime, this has to come out the bottom, which means we need to drill a hole.

I just knew the job was done. I bet this is delicious. Supplies are available in moderation. Oops! We're putting the threads in here, we're going to weld them together and then we're going to turn the female shark bites and then the tube can look like this in theory, it's perfect. Bud, it occurs to me that we never tried this, I mean, we have spares, it would probably be quicker to just stick another one up here, right, Jamie, oh yeah, luckily, it turns out there's the exact plug we need here, 20 amp, 120 volts, we have some adapters and extension cables from Infinity Cables, thanks everyone, pluggy. plug hey, you hear that's the condensate pump running at first, that's not too loud right, it sounds great, it's actually not that heavy when there's nothing in it while you're struggling to move it, what's the worst that could happen ?

I drop the thing, let's review This time it pumps right under the reservoir that way it feeds directly. We had a problem trying to bait at Linus' house with the pool trying to avoid that and then it will go down to the refrigerator and back up to the top blah blah blah. in our heater, as I call it, and then it comes out of the heater to a filter before the reservoir, so we pick up all the dirt before the reservoir goes back to the pump and the vicious cycle continues to cool. Are we expecting a lot of dirt?

I don't feel it. Since we should have also filtered the water that comes in, we will put a valve down here so that when the water comes in well at first, we can close it and the water will go to the tank, which will make it easier to bleed once. the system is working, we just open this valve and most of the water will go directly to the pump and we will ignore the reservoir when it comes back here that way, we don't have the full force of the pump, like it gushes out. in the tank constantly making a ton of noise I wish we had straps like this Mak this is a lot easier unless we use the LT Cable Management stuff for this metal pipe oh hell yeah the reason we're putting valves in here and actually on each part it's a so we can repair a part individually, you close the valves and then we can take it out and swap it or change it or replace it, whatever we're doing and B because it's like I said before, all of this goes away to redo properly and I want it to be easy for him to just take it apart, it's like it was designed for buddy, it's a perfect male, a tee and a valve and a valve, yes, this is not going to leak, no, it will be great, they are sharks.

Before we had this great idea of ​​water cooling the server room, we tried to mitigate this problem by adding ductwork and a fan, which was pretty easy to do because right where we are here is about 10 feet from the server room and There's only one hallway, so we added this insulated duct between and a big fan and it helped, but ultimately once it broke even it wasn't enough, hey, it's over, oh, that wasn't even that hard, huh, eh, mint, we forgot about the filter. I realized that Alex is putting this all together. I'm like, oh yeah, where are we putting the filter?

Damn, right where Alex is working. Oh no, brother, brother, did they sell me the mother? OMG, why didn't I check this? No Filter This is because a long term plan is to remove the RADS from these giant units and simply stick it right on the back of the rack so it captures heat directly. I don't really care where it goes as it's probably only going to be here a couple of months later so we're thinking about leaving it back here, that way the hot air comes out, gets sucked in at the back and shoots cold air out the front, and so We're thinking about leaving the back door open and then I can pull this tube right there.

Look, that's perfect. Good job Alex. I'm excited to see if he leaks or not. The good thing is that we won. I don't know until it's too late at the bottom yeah oh turn it off here's the problem we ran into this tank is thick in the middle where the seam is and when this is here it looks good , except when you squeeze it, that extra material pushes it out at an angle and now the seals can't seal. I come back to this project and they immediately tell me that it leaked, um, oh who, whoa, be careful, there are accessories at the bottom, but we have a solution for the leak and it's glue, no, it's not that, it's not that be the ooo this is like $40 a tube it doesn't drip it's nice and doesn't harden so it stays like a gooey gooey silicone solution yeah it wasn't.

I was able to make it exactly as I expected because it's still a little crooked but I don't think it's going to leak. I put a lot in there, but I have a job for you. Brilliant. I spent some of your money and got the wrong thing so we have to do it again, if I had a dollar for every time you said no I could afford all these mistakes, what are we building? A filter housing, they even sold me the wrong size of PVC. although I thought I just needed to connect these two things and they said okay we'll give you one inch PVC because it's one inch, well it's supposed to be an inch and a quarter, great, so I have 20 tons of PVC 1 inch I don't use it and then we went to the store and they told us it was okay, we can tell you that it will probably be long enough that you will have to cut the threads and then cut it in half and hopefully that will be enough. oh man that's going to be uh you have one chance to do this don't screw it up and this is my saw yeah look this is what the pros told us to buy they may have told us the wrong thing last time, but here we are again.

Surely that wouldn't happen twice. I don't have the clamps. Not really what this is for, but it's working. I cut part of the threads. I sanded down the little bumps. Now they fit here. By the way, that's why I was doing that. Really uh. oh wait, oh balls, we also have to cut this in half, okay, well, I have to go do a conference call, so what do I mean? You only did one thing and you didn't even do it, I don't know if. you're getting your bonus per minute bonus per minute look at that job oh well yeah I didn't know this glue set up in 10 minutes your filter is perfect damn I looked in the manual for the cooling tower stuff and it I did randomly.

I stumbled upon them mentioning a filter and they said 20 mesh and I think this is 100 so it's much finer, it should be fine as long as our pump has enough power for it, it doesn't really matter, I mean it's not as well. Yeah it's still perfect for 1 inch tubes too so it should be fine now we just have to figure out where we can put it now we just have to pose with it like not everyone is an imposter don't worry can you come with me? Let's go over what's going on here a little bit because I missed the part where you guys drilled holes in the building.

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You could take one of these home. No, they work very well. I'm not going to change anything, oh yeah, okay, the ducts, I could connect them to the PT Cruiser radiators, but that's all I would change, oh my goodness, we're getting that 1M by 1m x 1M 3D printer and we have a 3D scanner. You could 3D scan the back of your rack and give it a duct cover look. Actually, it's like considering it right now. I was thinking cardboard, but we could do it here. Oh yeah, totally because we could bring the air conditioning right to the front of this rack.

I also want some here. I guess if the vibe is low enough, it's probably fine, it'll be fine, yeah, it's fine.