Asetek, a supplier of liquid cooling solutions for computers, will unveil its patented ISAC (inside server air conditioning) reference design at the SC12 supercomputer conference.
ISAC completely eliminates the need for CRAC (computer room air conditioning) in the data centre.
All air inside the server stays inside the server and recirculates rather than exiting and heating up the data centre.
Each CPU is liquid cooled with Asetek’s proprietary liquid cooling while a liquid-to-air heat exchanger inside the server cools the inside server air.
Each component inside the server sees the same temperature and air-flow as it would in a traditional data centre install.
Asetek engineering vice president Ole Madsen said the demonstration will be an example of engineering at its best.
Madsen said the ISAC server will integrate with Asetek’s RackCDU, providing substantial data centre infrastructure cost savings.
"Because 100 per cent of all server heat is being transported into the water, users should expect savings of at least 60 per cent on their cooling power bill, often with immediate payback," he said.
“Up until now, if you wanted to remove 100 per cent server heat by liquid, you had to invest in very expensive and proprietary technologies with large cold plates covering the entire motherboard, memory modules etc.,
"Instead of cooling an entire building, you are now only cooling the tiny volume within each server and the associated benefits are obvious."