Overclocking in Immersion-Cooled Datacenters
- Pulkit Misra ,
- Ioannis Manousakis ,
- Esha Choukse ,
- Majid Jalili ,
- Íñigo Goiri ,
- Ashish Raniwala ,
- Brijesh Warrier ,
- Husam Alissa ,
- Bharath Ramakrishnan ,
- Phillip Tuma ,
- Christian Belady ,
- Marcus Fontoura ,
- Ricardo Bianchini
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Large cloud providers are starting to leverage liquid cooling for an increasing number of workloads. Liquid cooling enables providers to overclock server components, but they must tradeoff the potential increase in performance with higher power draw and reliability implications. We argue that two-phase immersion cooling is the most promising technology and, in that context, explore overclocking, its uses, and implications.