- Hey there. Whoa.
Been a little while.
I came all the way to France to check out OVHcloud.
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 gonna be awesome.
There's a lot to see, come along with me.
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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 6,000 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 60 FPS.
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 a lot.
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 GPU, 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 Floatplane.
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 gonna support Radeon and 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 don't know if they
would've let me do this if I was Linus
'cause 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,
a hundred percent load both of these sitting
at around 45 Celsius, which was pretty intense.
Speaking of a hundred percent load
this station is where they test them.
So once they've made two of these GPU sandwiches
I'm gonna call them, they rack them up here.
They have a power supply in 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 gonna press any buttons
'cause this is where they control being able to turn on
the water and make sure everything is cooling properly.
Up here 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 this scale
cause if you could save
a small amount of material on something,
it's gonna 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.
We're gonna 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 chip sets 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 heat sink in place
you're ready to prep it for adding another GPU.
First off, need to add this support
so it gets tucked under one of the heat pipes here
and then I'm not gonna do it
because it's gonna 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.
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Once each rack 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 retesting again
all of the same previous phases
that they did in a 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.
That one 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,
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 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 gonna gunk up 'cause 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 workday.
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 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 they're 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 gonna gonna run
in the case that they do actually need it.
Moving forward we have their incidents dashboard
or notifications.
Everything's green 'cause 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 anything that really needs to be addressed right now.
Moving up here, they have their server monitoring.
The whoa, haha, 1 is potentially down
or might potentially have an issue.
That's actually kind of cool that we saw that happen live
so that will now be seen by the team
and be able to be addressed.
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 cause things are going to go wrong.
So being able to address them quickly 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.
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 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 wanna show that it's a thin client.
We're using the Raspberry Pi.
Did you have to use the RasPi mouse?
- Yes.
Shadow does not claim to improve your peripherals at all.
So 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. 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.
That's pretty cool.
And the fact that he's more focused
on the game than anything else means, yeah,
I think it's working pretty well.
- Hey, I gotta kill already.
Never mind focused on the game.
I think you mean winning the game.
Oh, Shadow's already running on another device.
There, we found out what happens
if you try to connect a second device.
- [Luke] That was pretty simple.
- It prompts you and you press a button and then..
Okay here we go.
- Wait are you still in the game?
- Hold on a second. Is this gonna work?
No way! - [Luke] Whoa!
- No way! Where's my uh.
(imitates shooting sound)
Okay I mean, to be clear,
this is not an ideal controller set up
but you totally could.
- [Luke] That's sweet.
- [Jake] I'll buy you lunch if you get a frag.
- Oh yeah?
These onscreen joystick, as someone who doesn't mobile game.
Oh right.
Come on, come on, come on. Oh, bleep, I like popped him.
Come on. I got him! I got him! Yeah!
- First fight too. He never died.
- I can't believe that just happened.
- I think that's a pretty good point to end it on?
Could you see?
- [Andrew] Yeah, I got it.
- Thanks for watching.
I don't know what else to watch after this.
They'll put something on screen.
- Go watch the old Shadow one or something.
I don't know, or care.
- Yeah, sounds good. Let us know what you think
in the comments below and ya, see ya.