Neo-Luddite
10-07-2003, 04:58 AM
You folks that are into hardware cooling should check out www.kryotech.com. This is a small company in Columbia, South Carolina, that I interviewed with in 1999 at the height of the tech boom to do military sales. (Incidently, they (correctly!) chose not to hire me...) They are composed of a bunch of techheads from NCR who left the company and licensed something called NCR's Cheetah project for commercial application.
Kryotech's original business plan was to overclock PC components using refrigerated cooling systems. They actually achieved the very first 1gHz machines back in 99. Googling 'Kryotech' makes for some interesting reading...
Unfortunately for them, two things happened: the big chip makers had substantial breadthroughs in speed (without cooling) that rendered Kryotech's expensive solutions non-essential, and secondly, their young marketing VP was killed or died suddenly (I never did find out how or why, and didn't like to ask.) Fortunes of war.
Anyhoo, they now seem to be focusing on larger, laboratory and manufacturing cooling systems. I think funding must have got a bit tight for a while, because some of their folks are holding down other jobs at the same time. But they seem to have adapted and survived.
Their CTO is Dr. Ben Peeples, a professor of Electrical Engineering at The Citadel. Real nice guy. All the guys that I met there seemed very approachable. The reason that I mention that is if you had technical difficulties with your home cooling projects, they seem like they'd be great resources for the tough questions. I am sure you could contact them through the Kryotech website....
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Kryotech's original business plan was to overclock PC components using refrigerated cooling systems. They actually achieved the very first 1gHz machines back in 99. Googling 'Kryotech' makes for some interesting reading...
Unfortunately for them, two things happened: the big chip makers had substantial breadthroughs in speed (without cooling) that rendered Kryotech's expensive solutions non-essential, and secondly, their young marketing VP was killed or died suddenly (I never did find out how or why, and didn't like to ask.) Fortunes of war.
Anyhoo, they now seem to be focusing on larger, laboratory and manufacturing cooling systems. I think funding must have got a bit tight for a while, because some of their folks are holding down other jobs at the same time. But they seem to have adapted and survived.
Their CTO is Dr. Ben Peeples, a professor of Electrical Engineering at The Citadel. Real nice guy. All the guys that I met there seemed very approachable. The reason that I mention that is if you had technical difficulties with your home cooling projects, they seem like they'd be great resources for the tough questions. I am sure you could contact them through the Kryotech website....
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