Liquid immersion chassis liner
Systems and methods for providing and using a liner including one or more rigid over-molds for a chassis of a computing device cooled with a liquid fluid are disclosed. The liner may include a flexible membrane configured to be positioned in a chassis to form a liquid barrier that retains a liquid cooling fluid and one or more rigid over-molds configured to align components in fixed positions relative to other respective components or the chassis. The rigid over-molds may be located on the interior and/or the exterior of the liner to fixedly couple to components and/or the chassis. A set of over-molds may also be configured to enable insertion of connectors exterior to the liner, wherein a first rigid over-mold on the interior of the liner may be aligned with a second rigid over-mold on the exterior of the liner.
1. A computing system comprising:
a chassis;
one or more computer components; and
a flexible liner, at least partially filled with a dielectric fluid, wherein:
the flexible liner is positioned in the chassis and forms a liquid barrier that retains the dielectric fluid; and
the flexible liner comprises one or more rigid over-molds, wherein the one or more rigid over-molds are configured to align respective ones of the one or more computer components in fixed positions relative to other respective ones of the one or more computer components or the chassis.
2. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein a portion of the one or more rigid over-molds are located on an exterior of the flexible liner, and wherein the portion of the one or more rigid over-molds located on the exterior of the flexible liner are configured to fixedly couple the flexible liner to the chassis.
3. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein a portion of the one or more rigid over-molds are located on an interior of the flexible liner, and wherein the portion of the one or more rigid over-molds located on the interior of the flexible liner are configured to fixedly couple to the respective ones of the one or more computer components to align the respective ones of the one or more computer components in the fixed positions.
4. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more rigid over-molds comprise:
a set of over-molds configured to:
structurally support a first connector configured to accept insertion of a second connector that connects on an exterior side of the flexible liner; and
facilitate a connection from the first connector to a given one of the one or more computer components mounted on an interior-side of the flexible liner,
wherein the set of over-molds comprises:
a first rigid over-mold located on the interior of the flexible liner; and
a second rigid over-mold located on the exterior of the flexible liner,
wherein the first rigid over-mold on the interior of the flexible liner is aligned with the second rigid over-mold on the exterior of the flexible liner.
5. The computing system of claim 1 , wherein the dielectric fluid comprises identifying particles and wherein a concentration of the identifying particles in the dielectric fluid is uniquely identifying for the fluid.
6. A flexible liner for retaining a dielectric fluid in a liquid-cooled computing device, the flexible liner comprising:
a flexible membrane configured to be positioned in a chassis to form a liquid barrier that retains the dielectric fluid; and
one or more rigid over-molds, wherein the one or more rigid over-molds are configured to align respective ones of computer components of the liquid-cooled computing device in fixed positions relative to other respective ones of the computer components or the chassis.
7. The flexible liner of claim 6 , wherein at least a portion of the one or more rigid over-molds are located on an exterior of the flexible liner and are configured to fixedly couple to the chassis.
8. The flexible liner of claim 6 , wherein at least a portion of the one or more rigid over-molds are located on an interior of the flexible liner and are configured to fixedly couple to one or more of the respective ones of the computer components of the liquid-cooled computing device.
9. The flexible liner of claim 6 , wherein at least a portion of the one or more rigid over-molds are configured to accept mounting brackets for the aligning of the respective ones of the computer components of the liquid-cooled computing device.
10. The flexible liner of claim 6 , wherein respective ones of the one or more rigid over-molds are configured to enable inserting connectors exterior to the flexible liner, wherein a first rigid over-mold on the interior of the flexible liner is aligned with a second rigid over-mold on the exterior of the flexible liner.
11. The flexible liner of claim 6 , wherein the one or more rigid over-molds comprise respective sets of rigid over-molds configured to mount different types of the computer components.
12. The flexible liner of claim 11 , wherein the different types of the computer components comprise two or more of:
a printed circuit board;
a power supply;
a mass storage device; or
an external network connector.
13. The flexible liner of claim 6 , further comprising a heat-melded closure on a top portion of the flexible liner.
14. The flexible liner of claim 6 , further comprising a re-sealable closure on a top portion of the flexible liner.
15. The flexible liner of claim 14 , wherein the re-sealable closure comprises a fold closure, a zip closure, a screw closure, or a snap closure.
16. A method of assembling a liquid-cooled computing device, comprising:
installing a flexible liner inside a chassis, wherein the flexible liner comprises rigid over-molds configured to align computer components in fixed positions relative to other respective ones of the computer components or the chassis;
installing the computer components inside the flexible liner and the chassis; and
filling the flexible liner with a fluid.
17. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:
aligning the computer components to the chassis using the rigid over-molds on an exterior of the flexible liner.
18. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:
aligning the computer components relative to other respective ones of the computer components using the rigid over-molds on an interior of the flexible liner.
19. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:
spraying in the flexible liner in the chassis; and
fixing the rigid over-molds to an interior of the sprayed-in flexible liner.
20. The method of claim 16 , wherein the fluid is a dielectric fluid comprising identifying particles and wherein a concentration of the identifying particles in the dielectric fluid is uniquely identifying for the fluid.