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Heating houses with high performance servers

63 点作者 plingamp超过 8 年前

16 条评论

leonroy超过 8 年前
I&#x27;m actually inclined to take this fairly seriously.<p>I personally run a 36U rack of servers in my basement for learning and hosting for my business. It gets toasty enough that the basement temperature hovers around 30-35C.<p>On cold days we open the door to the basement and the warm air rises into the ground floor, giving a bit of warmth.<p>On warm days I have a temperature controlled fan which vents the air to the outside.<p>My house has central heating but if it had central air I&#x27;m pretty sure an exhaust from the top of the rack to the central air unit would be do-able (not sure what HVAC building codes I&#x27;d be compromising though).<p>Puget Systems did a great blog post titled &#x27;Space Heater vs Gaming PC&#x27;. They basically found they were tied in the efficiency of heat output from both devices.<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pugetsystems.com&#x2F;labs&#x2F;articles&#x2F;Gaming-PC-vs-Space-Heater-Efficiency-511&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pugetsystems.com&#x2F;labs&#x2F;articles&#x2F;Gaming-PC-vs-Spac...</a>
icebraining超过 8 年前
It&#x27;s interesting. There are obvious security&#x2F;integrity problems, but there is probably plenty of not very sensitive data to process, and regarding tampered results, if it&#x27;s cheap enough, one can always process everything twice and compare them.<p>That said, the eRadiator market seems to be limited to households in places which are cold all year and which have a decent Internet connection. What does that leave? Northern Europe?
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eloff超过 8 年前
This is a joke right?<p>Unix philosophy has long been that the person with physical access to the machine owns it. This would only be acceptable for a very specific class of compute jobs where nobody cares if you hack them. Like computation for charitable purposes. You could never host peoples personal or business data in this. Furthermore bandwidth would be limited and unreliable, as would power.
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seltzered_超过 8 年前
Oddly, this isn&#x27;t the first startup proposing this idea, french startup Qarnot Computing is also in this space: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qarnot-computing.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.qarnot-computing.com</a><p>I&#x27;m still critical of it, but it&#x27;d be interesting to see if it flies in a constrained scenario of condos&#x2F;hotels&#x2F;office buildings - there&#x27;s already scenarios where data centers will take up entire floors or basements of buildings and channel heat into the building&#x27;s hvac system.
brotherjerky超过 8 年前
In theory, any heat generated without computation is a waste. I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s pretty tough to actually make that work at scale, so excited to see this!
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martin_bech超过 8 年前
A distributed version of this will take place in Denmark, once Apples new datacenter is online. We have a distributed heating network in denmark, where excess heat is &quot;sent&quot; to homes connected with &quot;fjernvarme&quot; translated &quot;remote heat&quot;. This new datacenter will dump its heat into the existing heating network and will heat x homes in the neighborhod.
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andy_ppp超过 8 年前
My 7x7 foot room at university was toasty with the combination of a GeForce 3 and Diablo 2.
nostromo超过 8 年前
I get an early start on my veggi garden with a few grow lamps in my basement each spring.<p>The energy is &quot;free&quot; because the furnace would run more without them anyway.<p>By the way, if you live in a cold environment and wondered why using LED bulbs didn&#x27;t make any dent in your electricity bill, it&#x27;s because your furnace runs more now without hot bulbs.
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jdiez17超过 8 年前
Interesting idea. There&#x27;s probably some clever software involved to schedule compute jobs onto the radiators; end users will want to regulate the heat output. Also, they must be using some rather beefy servers to generate an amount of heat comparable to a space heater (3kW).
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bshimmin超过 8 年前
This is, to me, absolutely indistinguishable from an April fools&#x27; day joke.
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randyrand超过 8 年前
network bandwidth is of course the biggest limiting factor. =&#x2F;<p>Designing a data center with 1.5 mb&#x2F;s upload between nodes would be.....not fun.<p>Excited to see if they can make a business out of this.<p>edit: also would suck that for half the year your data center gets turned off.
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tbihl超过 8 年前
More exciting than the free great is the idea of a reliable, high speed connection.<p>But I live in a South facing apartment in South Carolina, so I just bake something if my house is cold for a few hours.
worace超过 8 年前
What about wall-mounted out of the box bitcoin miners? Get around the physical access&#x2F;security difficulties by making the homeowner own the machine and capture the benefit from its computation (rather than relying on network-based resource sharing). The economics might not really work out in the case of bitcoin but maybe there are other applications where the value of (computation + heat output) would make it worthwhile.
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cmac2992超过 8 年前
I&#x27;ve been heating my room by running stanford&#x27;s folding at home. Silly but it actually works
sixsevenwheels1超过 8 年前
home version of this <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geekwire.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;amazon-gets-green-light-heat-new-buildings-westin-building-data-centers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.geekwire.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;amazon-gets-green-light-heat-ne...</a>
annonch超过 8 年前
this is such a good idea, it works well in the summer too
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