New method of heat dissipation Texas data Center will be in the water

Although in theory, computers can operate normally in insulating liquids, few people do so in reality. But some time ago, in order to avoid the server overheating, located in Texas http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/34149.html "> Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center TACC the entire rack is soaked in liquid.

The figure is a standard 42U rack, and now it has been immersed in some kind of insulating fluid by researchers, and there are some tubes that appear to be connected to refrigeration equipment, in addition to the necessary communication and power cables.

This oily liquid and heat dissipation method was invented by Austin, a local company called the Green Revolution Thermal Co. According to the data center staff, the servers immersed in the liquid did not install any fans at all, and all parts of the hard drive were specially packaged to ensure that the hard drive was not deeply affected by the fluids. The servers and racks immersed in liquids are entirely industrial standard products, and, to be sure, their manufacturers are Dell.

Dan Stanzione, deputy director of the data center, said "The heat dissipation method does greatly reduce the cost of cooling." "It is reported that the liquid by refrigeration equipment at 41 degrees Celsius (105 degrees Fahrenheit), while immersed in the server heating parts of the approximate temperature of about 46 degrees Celsius (115 degrees Fahrenheit), the server in this condition work well."

The TACC data center, built three years ago, consumes 2.5 megawatts of electricity a year, and the use of this technology will drastically reduce energy consumption. For a standard 42U rack, the refrigerant power to cool it is only 250W, and he replaces all the fans in the rack.