In my last column I wrote about liquid cooling and thought I did a fair assessment of the current developments and various technologies (at least in my own opinion) and their thermal advantages. However, much to my surprise, two months later (and despite my article), I found that most data centers still have not completely abandoned air cooled IT equipment and continue to wrestle with cooling issues.
This past Labor Day weekend I decided to barbecue some ribs and while I am normally in a hurry to get them done as quickly as possible (my typical 30 minutes of burn’em, turn’em, and serve’em approach), this time to avoid the usual faux complements from our guests, such as “umm… crunchy,” I decided to try slow cooking them. So I looked up some cooking recommendations on the Internet (where it seems a lot of people have opinions on how to slow cook ribs).