Researchers at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) based out of the University of California, San Diego have developed a new approach to cooling computer servers. Based on rocket-cooling technology, the Cool-Flo liquid cooling system may improve energy efficiency and enable higher-performance computing.
Developed by Steve Harrington, CEO of Flometrics, Inc., the server-agnostic, rack-based, direct-to-the-chip, leak-free Cool-Flo liquid cooling system was installed as a part of a pilot program to cool three 1U servers in the Calit2’s server room on the UC San Diego campus. The liquid cooling system is capable of reducing power by as much as 25 to 35 percent and CPU temperatures by as much as 30 degrees Celsius.
