hey there well been a little while I came all the way to France to check out
ovh Cloud not actually for Floatplane Reasons I'm here because Shadow is
sponsoring this video so that we can check out their power upgrade servers
they're super powerful they're super cool they have eight gpus all this fun
stuff we're gonna build one we're gonna see how they build 80 000 computers a
year and then we're gonna go to their Data Center and see how it's all implemented powered cooled everything
it's going to be awesome there's a lot to see come along with me
you may have heard of Shadow before but just in case you haven't they're a super
easy to access high performance personal computer in the cloud what does that
mean for you it means that you can extend the lifespan of your various
devices if you have some junky old laptop or desktop or whatever you can
move the heavy compute that you might need to do in your day-to-day to the
cloud and Shadow can handle it Shadow can also be used in a business
environment such as deploying multiple Shadow PCS for those working remote or
configuring Shadow PCS with up to an RTX 6000 GPU for high workloads it's not
just performance tasks either in regards to like standard old school research
stuff you can play games too you can do the fun things on your dad's old Smart
TV or your phone or your VR device or your Raspberry Pi or whatever the heck
you want you can run 1080p games at 240
FPS and 4K games at 60fps let's go see
how it's done every server for ovh's European market and Asian Pacific Market
is made here Shadow or not and every
single component for ovh worldwide is made here as well including ovh's
version of an all-in-one water cooler which can apparently cool an entire row
of racks of servers I don't know the exact capacity but it's safe to say it's
solar this facility processes through several hundred million dollars worth of
small components every year including this huge pile of trays and trays and
trays of RAM they also have gpus CPUs
and lots of copper piping because ovh uses water cooling in all of their
facilities from here it goes into the rest of the facility where they build
everything test everything do r d etc etc once it's done it comes back here
actually just across the way where we
can see all these cool signs where they line everything up it goes onto trucks
and in this case gets sent to the main data center that we use at flowplane now
we get to the fun stuff this is the area where they're actually building the
power upgrade servers and the first part of that is to strip all of the standard
stock cooling components off of these Quadro gpus from NVIDIA in the future
they're going to support Radeon as well right now we're just dealing with NVIDIA as we move down the line we can see that
they start putting them into sandwiches where they're putting these custom made
heat sinks and heat pipes and everything onto the gpus and then sandwiching them
together with a dual Riser it's actually like super cool I uh I don't know if
they would have let me do this if I was Linus because he'd drop it but you know I won't do that they're able to keep
these at a reasonable temperature I washed it under load 100 load both of
these sitting at around 45 Celsius which was pretty intense speaking of 100 load
this station is where they test them so once they've made two of these GPU
sandwiches I'm going to call them they rack them up here they have a power
supply and everything they need to test there's a motherboard sitting on the
lower part of this server they test here this is where they control I'm not going
to press any buttons because this is where they control being able to turn on
the water and make sure everything is cooling properly up here they they load
over the network a Linux system they put a load on it they test it make sure
everything's good if it's good we move on further down the line so ovh and
Shadow are always chasing efficiencies it makes sense at the scale because if
you could save a small amount of material on something it's going to
become a lot over all of the systems that you're building and they design
their own water blocks for all of their systems the ones we saw earlier the big
chunky ones was an earlier version they have a very new one that looks a little
bit like this you'd be surprised that this setup can cool a Quadro but it
totally can they've done a bunch of research I'm going to try to install this right now and not completely fail
we'll see how that goes you have to kind of slide it in like that you've engaged
the cooling at this point and then these little arms here
have to touch some chipsets on the board
there we go it's a little slippery but once they mount it it's now ready to be
kind of sandwiched together the first thing that you need to do is screw these
standoffs onto the very long bolts and then once that's done which they have
kind of cool screwdrivers for they don't have one right here so I can't show you
lttstore.com you can get a cool screwdriver too but once that's done
once the standoffs are planted just put another GPU on top and do the same thing
once you get the heatsink in place you're ready to prep it for adding
another GPU first off you need to add this support so it gets tucked under one
of the heat pipes here and then I'm not going to do it because it's going to take a bunch of time actually no I'm
doing it fast let's go nice okay then
you feed the bolts through put these risers on each one of the posts and then
you can add another GPU on top of that so they're not touching there's no metal
on metal and then ovh's own marked PCB
custom Riser gets plugged into both gpus
at the same time and your GPU sandwich is ready to go
these are the tested good gpus which they are then going to put onto actual
servers that are theoretically going to go into actual production after the gpus
are mounted we then have to mount the motherboard the RAM the CPU all that
stuff you're used to seeing and all of the plugins for the Riser cables because
I mean well there's eight of them one for every GPU after that we're pretty
much good to go for this stage there's a little bit more testing that has to be done a few other behind the scenes
things but it gets held here because as
far as building the computer is concerned other than a little bit more chassis it's essentially done my
favorite last bit that I have to point out is these pipes up here water
distribution things they call them clarinets I just had to include that
what's inside has been proved good for at least a day it is then sent to an ovh
data center like this one upon arrival they do re-testing again all of the same
previous phases that they did in the previous location all of it is done
again just to make sure that nothing went wrong in transport then once
they're done and everything is ready it's installed here and is able to be
used by users like you for whatever high performance applications they might need
other than obviously the one we're selling right now I don't want to be
ready in a few minutes all of the servers at every single ovh data center
is water cooled and that takes some serious infrastructure to be able to
accomplish along with a bunch of r d some of that infrastructure has actually
been right in front of us this whole time it's this gigantic metal plate
below that huge metal plate is a massive
Reservoir this Reservoir was actually built by a separate company of a
bottling company that owned this building before ovh but they've reused
that infrastructure to use it as a backup Reservoir just in case they need
it below each one of these these hatches is just a massive amount of water and
that water is constantly being pH tested and there's even these really Advanced
looking pool skimmers moving around on top of it that are just making sure that
none of the loops are going to Gunk up because that would be a really really
big problem speaking of big problems moving all this water around is quite a
difficult task and you'll find these pumps all throughout the facility you'll
always find them in pairs the reason for that is because they'll run one at a
time they switch every work day that's to make sure that each one has a very
similar amount of worked hours and by using them all the time they're actually
quite sure that they work which is good all of these Advanced systems
synchronize together including a few things that I can't really show you or
talk about on camera result in quite a dramatic difference this pipe for
instance is the water coming into the building when I touch it it's actually
quite cold this pipe is the water going out of the
building and when I touch it oh hey it's around room temperature the difference
they say on average is about 15 to 20 degrees and you can see quite quickly
why this would actually be worth doing instead of running air conditioning for
this entire gigantic building to make
sure that all of this keeps running smoothly they have the monitoring room I
I like to see it as a control center I think they could probably launch a
satellite from here but we'll see time will tell over on the right side they
have their fuel monitoring to make sure that their generators which are their
like third backup for power that they very rarely ever would need to use
actually still have fuel make sure they're going to run in the case that
they do actually need it moving forward we have their incidence dashboard or
notifications everything's green because everything's going well right now these
red on the far right hand side are actually just information that they're
receiving from different parts of the data center not not anything that really needs to be addressed right now moving
up here they have their server monitoring the whoa haha one is
potentially down or might potentially have an issue that's actually kind of
cool that we saw that happen live uh so that will now be seen by the team and be
able to be addressed uh and the green zeros on the other two mean that there's
no problems in those zones other parts of the screen like in the middle here
that's checking if different benchmarks have failed so maybe a system needs to
be worked on down here it's things that need to be repaired or upgraded Etc
they're always tracking everything so that things can be handled very quickly
I actually saw people run around in the room behind the camera to address that
as it happened which is super cool you want that type of stuff in a data center
because things are going to go wrong so being able to address them quickly is is
is key speaking of address them quickly they also monitor the weather just in
case something happens if there's a storm if there's a heat wave in the case
of a storm they might want to go around and just make sure that everything's okay as the storm's going on after the
storm passes make sure everything is all hunky-dory they haven't necessarily had
a problem but it's good to know coming outside it's
more of the same but even bigger they have some massive reservoirs back there
that I can't show you they also have some really cool heat exchangers just
off camera in this direction that I can't show you but what I will say is
standing amongst those outside in the cold is actually warmer than standing in
the data center inside so clearly they're working pretty well in the
background if you haven't noticed there's some big power lines power lines that would power you know like a city
but the 220 000 volts that they're delivering to the ovh building is just
for ovh that's their main intake just in case there's something wrong with that
across the building on the other side underground they have more additional
power lines bringing in 20 000 volts and if all of that isn't working they have
some huge generators each one gives one megawatt of power when it's running and
can run for up to 14 hours but again they they very rarely ever have to use
those that's it for the tour of ovh and
seeing how they build the servers and all that kind of stuff now I'm back in
Canada at the studio and I have to show Linus how this kind of all comes
together so I have a Raspberry Pi system with Shadow installed an iOS device with
Shadow installed and a non-gaming laptop an LG gram with Shadow installed on the
shadow Windows system we installed some various games and we're gonna have him
check them out I get that you want to show that it's a thin client we're using
the raspberry pi did you have to use the raspie mouse yes Shadow does not claim
to improve your peripherals at all so this is this is what it came with
also we had some issues getting the Raspberry Pi to work with a better
monitor than this no I'm fine but not scepter is King tier yeah it's right in
the name all right let's go
sick really no one no one drove you what are
you guys idiots so playing Halo which is notoriously a little bit rough to run
and playing it on a Raspberry Pi it was pretty cool and the fact that he's more
focused on the game than anything else means yeah I think it's working pretty yeah I got a kill already
never mind focused on the game I think you mean winning the game oh Shadow's
always running on another already running on another device there we found out what happens if you try to connect a
second device that was pretty simple it prompts you and you press a button and
then
okay here we go hold on a second is this
gonna work no way
where's my uh
okay I mean to be clear this is uh not an ideal controller setup
but you totally could that's sweet
oh yeah uh these on-screen joystick as someone who doesn't mobile game oh right
come on come on come on oh I almost like popped him
come on I got him
ah first fight too he never died
pretty good point to end it on could you see
yeah thanks for watching I don't know what
else to watch after this they'll put something on screen watch the old Shadow
one or something I don't know yeah it sounds good let us know what you think in the comments down below and
yeah see ya