News HPE flaunts El Capitan supercomputer blade with AMD's Instinct MI300 — projected to be world's fastest when finished this year

[Admin]

Images of one of the El Capitan's server blades taken at a recent computing event in Germany shows how absurdly dense each blade is packed in with AMD MI300 APUs.

HPE flaunts El Capitan supercomputer blade with AMD's Instinct MI300 — projected to be world's fastest when finished this year : Read more

 

[SDBud1]

Blades PRODUCE heat, they don't use it.

 

[DS426]

Interesting how blades in the rest of the datacenter world started to kind of disappear, or at least lose favor to full 1U and 2U racks, yet the form factor is resilient and certainly holds appeal, especially in server applications that require high density over almost anything else. Dissipating this amount of heat in this volume of space is impressive, although certainly costly and still an engineering challenge. I also wonder how much phase-change is utilized??

 

[jp7189]

Can anyone explain to me the seemingly crazy routing of the copper heatpipes in that pic?

 

[eX_Arkangel]

i assume is for cooling the rest of the MB components (VRM's, other IC's, controller's, etc).
Try to look at the entire blade as a single gigantic current dGPU with its 3-4slots coolers, that often have dedicated heatpipes for memory and VRM cooling.
anyway thats my "guess"