The National Security Agency (NSA) has announced plans to use 5 million gallons per day of treated wastewater from Howard County in Maryland to cool its huge Fort Meade data center, which is expected to be completed in 2016. According to The Baltimore Sun, the NSA will cover the $40 million required to build the needed pump station, and will pay up to $2 million each year for … [Read more...]
New Ultrathin Material May Lead to Better Thermally Conductive Coatings
Scientists at Kansas State University have discovered a new ultrathin electrically conductive material they say may lead to advances in the efficiency of electronic and thermal devices. Vikas Berry, the William H. Honstead professor of chemical engineering, and his colleagues found that manipulating molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)—a three-atom-thick inorganic compound … [Read more...]
Electrical Field Facilitates Better Heat Transfer
The application of an electric field to a condenser could double the efficiency of surface heat transfer in power plant and high performance computing cooling systems, according to new research released by scientists at MIT. The discovery—made by MIT postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, graduate student Daniel Preston, and former … [Read more...]
Cooling the Cloud: Energy-Efficient Warm-Water Cooling of Servers
Milnes P. David, Robert Simons, David Graybill, Vinod Kamath, Bejoy Kochuparambil, Robert Rainey and Roger Schmidt ; IBM Systems & Technology Group, Poughkeepsie, New York and Raleigh, North Carolina Pritish Parida, Mark Schultz, Michael Gaynes and Timothy Chainer; IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York INTRODUCTION Data centers now consume a … [Read more...]
Characterization of Server Thermal Mass
Mahmoud Ibrahim Panduit Corporation The continuous growth of internet business and social media is necessitating the construction of new data centers to support the rising volume of internet traffic. This is in addition to the increasing number of colocation facilities being built to support different business sizes with different functions. Generally, data centers are … [Read more...]
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