By: Dr. Alexander Yatskov; Thermal Form & Function Inc. Introduction Current high-performance computing (HPC) and Telecom trends have shown that the number of transistors per chip has continued to grow in recent years, and data center cabinets have already surpassed 30 kW per cabinet (or 40.4 kW/m2) [1]. It is not an unreasonable assumption to expect that, in accordance … [Read more...]
A Simple Method to Understand Trade-Offs in Data Center Cooling
Cooling and thermal management are critical to data center reliability. Many organizations see cooling as a differentiating factor in the lifecycle cost of their data center. Recent industry guidelines [1] for data center cooling have suggested energy savings in air-cooled data centers by increasing the temperature of the cooling air. This increase enables two trends: reduced … [Read more...]
Liquid Immersion in the Data Center: A Modular Approach for Cooling High-Performance Microelectronics
Introduction While data enter energy consumption is already significant, the growth of a global cloud-based economy along with society’s need for constant social networking connectivity will cause this number to rise even further. The world’s Information-Communications-Technologies (ICT) infrastructure, a general representation of cloud-based computing, is estimated to … [Read more...]
Metal Organic Frameworks Applied in Layers Could Signal Cooling Revolution
Researchers at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute of Solar Energy Systems have developed highly-porous metal organic frameworks (MOFs) that can be applied in a thin layer to efficiently absorb large quantities of water vapor. MOFs, as determined by research published in RSC Advances, are three-dimensional porous structures consisting of metallic clusters and organic linkers adept … [Read more...]
Superconducting Refrigerator Cools via Tunneling Cascade
Researchers from Italy and France have proposed a new design for a superconducting refrigerator that uses a series of steps to more effectively cool objects down to temperatures near absolute zero. Conventional superconducting refrigerators rely a array of superconductors (S), normal metals (N) and tunnel barriers (I) that are arranged in a symmetric configuration (SINIS or … [Read more...]
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