2 phase inside the board side and a water block on the other.
The novec is boiled and condensed changing phase on one side of the sealed unit. The others side removes heat with water rad system. If you have a mining board that conforms to a the Iceotope form factor it could be ready now. You would still need the server modular units though check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHHHYcdPFnQiceotope isnt 2-phase, theyre using the novec without boiling it (may as well be mineral oil). theyve got pumps and radiators inside each blade. makes no sense. ignoring the best bit of novec tech.
Are you an idiot?
Iceotope is 2 phase. Do you even know what 2 phase means?
Its liquid-gas vapour chamber design. Like heatpipe, it IS 2 phase. Dumbass.
take a look at the design and tell me again if you still think its 2 phase.
there is no phase change going on in this design. it uses water to cool the novec for the entire tank of novec. there's nowhere in their design for the novec to boil. it has nowhere for the vapour to go, and it has no condenser above it. It has no expansion vessel. In short, this design *ISNT 2-phase*, it keeps the novec in a liquid state, ALL THE TIME, and cools it with direct contact with the cooling plate thats cooled by Water.
http://www.iceotope.com/assets/files/pdfs/module-a4-icm-t1-si2-spec.pdfin 3m's own PR, it states that Allied Control's solution is 2-phase, and that Iceotope's is convection cooling.
http://prec.pr/symposium/2014/pdfs/feb20-pm/Kevin-Cabrera.pdfand i expect an apology! don't go calling people dumbasses and idiots. especially when you don't know what you're talking about.
The Novec liquid they use boils at 50c. Vaporizing MUST happen to cool the chips and components.
Its essentially a heatpipe (which is also 2phase btw), but your component is completely submerged.
wrong again!
novec is available in different versions at several different boiling points. there's novec 7000 which boils at 49, and novec 7100 which boils at 61 degrees (there are also other novecs that boil at higher temps too).
you can see clearly that they are using water that flows from top to bottom (or vice versa) through a heat exchanger at the other end, that cools the entire vertical height of the blade's contact plate. the novec is alongside is is cooled via the contact plate. the novec has nowhere to boil and nowhere for the vapour to rise (you need a large cavity ABOVE of the liquid for the vapour to collect), and there is also no condenser above the novec, so this is *definitly not* a phase change implementation. The NOVEC does not change from liquid to gas in the iceotope design. They are simply using the novec as an inert liquid, and they're keeping it under the boiling point, which is very easy to do and they can achieve this with whichever novec version they choose to use, to ensure it doesn't boil. presumably its novec 7100 but they could easily use a different one like 7200 since they will never achieve boiling and in this design, they can't cope with it boiling. as i said, there's nowhere for the gas to go, and no condenser above the novec to turn it back into liquid, so you are dead wrong, as wrong as you could possibly be, that this is a 2-phase design.
Vapourising does NOT happen in the Iceotope design. They keep the entire board immersed in novec - and it stays in liquid form the entire time - and they cool the novec via the contact plate with the water that runs throughout the entire rack, and regular convection moves the novec around its tank. This is *NOT* a 2-phase design - the novec never changes from liquid to gas (and back again) - and you are wrong, and extremely rude and misguided in your insults.
[edit] Since writing this, i have heard direct from the horses mouth - 3M - and they confirmed that Iceotope uses Novec 7300, which boils at 98 degrees, and they do not allow the novec to boil in their specific application. Confirming, there is NO PHASE CHANGE in the iceotope implementation. It is singe phase. Have confirmed without a shadow of doubt that you were wrong. And are actually a nasty piece of work, for putting others down so easily, especially when being ignorant of the facts.
Just in case you don't believe 3M... (or me, for that matter)... here's Iceotope explaining it themselves in their own blog, stating that they use convection (not phase change) for the cooling.. and confirming that they use Novec 7300 (boiling point 98 degrees), and thus do not ever boil the novec. It NEVER changes into a gas in the iceotope design.
http://blog.iceotope.com/2012/03/its-cooler-to-soak-your-servers.html