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Cooling Solutions for Rack Equipment With Side-to-Side Airflow
White Papers Equipment with side-to-side airflow presents special cooling challenges in today's data center. Common rack enclosures and rack layouts are fundamentally incompatible with side-to-side cooling, resulting in excessive temperatures and ultimately...
[March 16, 2009, 2:51]
Improving Rack Cooling Performance Using Airflow Management Blanking Panels
White Papers The use of airflow management blanking panels can reduce this problem. This paper explains and quantifies the effects of airflow management blanking panels on cooling system performance. Unused vertical space in open frame racks and rack enclosures...
[October 1, 2009, 9:29]
Dyson unveils bladeless fan
Blog The Dyson Air Multiplier works by using innovative airflow engineering to pull air up through an energy efficient brushless motor in its base, and force it up into the loop amplifier at the top, where the air is amplified 15 times by drawing...
[October 13, 2009, 13:27]
Dell PowerEdge R710 review
Reviews For example, the optional front bezel has been redesigned to stop customer-applied labels interfering with airflow, while the chassis has been tweaked to provide even easier access to all of the components.
[August 20, 2009, 12:38]
Hush ATX Media PVR review
Reviews To access the inside of the case you must remove six special screws (a tool is supplied, but you can improvise if it gets lost) and lift the lid, which is festooned with airflow-promoting holes and backed by a metal grille.
[November 11, 2004, 13:15]
Honey to the B(oom)
Blog The researchers train the honeybees by placing them in front of an airflow which contains traces of chemicals commonly used in explosives. The mobile fume cupboard supplied by Air Science Technologies will help bees to be trained ‘on-the-fly...
[May 17, 2007, 11:38]
DuctSizer
Downloads Other minor modifications for performance.1/10/02 - Version 3.2 fixed an error in the calculation of the hydraulic diameter on the Rectangular Duct Calcs screen.1/8/02 - Version 3.1 allows the user to enter either: (1) the airflow and duct size to...
[June 18, 2002, 8:00]
Linux to drive supercomputing cluster
News This mesh is needed for simulations of design-crucial areas such as airflow within engine cylinders during activity. Achieving as close as identical airflow into all cylinders is a huge optimisation".
[May 20, 2003, 11:16]
How to stop your hardware overheating
News Restricted airflow in the case is often the crux of case temperature problems. Using cable ties or rearranging the drive layout can open up airflow in the case. Some random events are a bit more extreme than others and result in the microscopic...
[August 12, 2003, 9:45]
NASA fires up supercomputer
News NASA's Ames Research Centre is using the system for calculating airflow around aircraft, simulating life's origins and predicting hurricanes, among other tasks, SGI said. NASA has successfully fired up the first SGI Origin 3800 supercomputer with a...
[April 4, 2001, 10:13]
Best Practices for Designing Data Centers With the InfraStruXure InRow RC
White Papers The InfraStruXure InRow RC is designed to provide cooling at the row and rack level of a data center for rack based IT equipment with front to back airflow. When designing data centers with this product, there are some best practices that should be...
[April 26, 2008, 1:02]
Great screen but runs very hot and had many other problems with mine
Member Review Problems: standby does not work; poor keyboard; can reach temparatures of 75 degrees C (I had to buy a device to sit under the unit to help keep a good airflow); Dell support is based in India, had a really frustrating time trying to explain the...
[February 25, 2005, 13:39]
A Comparison of HP BladeSystem With Thermal Logic Technologies to Competitive Systems
White Papers According to HP advertising, the "HP Thermal Logic" power and cooling system represents a new approach that significantly reduces the power consumption and required airflow for data centers requiring fully-featured, high-density servers.
[May 11, 2007, 1:00]
Thermal Design of the Dell PowerEdge T610, R610, and R710 Servers
White Papers Flexible BIOS options, dynamic fan speed control, custom heat sinks, efficient fans, and airflow management are some of the ways Dell provides an efficient, reliable thermal solution. Dell wants to simplify IT for its customers by developing energy...
[August 15, 2009, 1:20]
Thermal Interoperability of AdvancedTCA Shelf and Boards
White Papers This paper also describes a methodology of evaluating airflow volumes through each slot in an ATCA Shelf that can be used to benchmark each Shelf. This paper describes the AdvancedTCA (ATCA) Shelf requirements to cool all the Boards and facilitate...
[November 8, 2006, 0:00]
Dual-Stage Servo Systems and Vibration Compensation in Computer Hard Disk Drives
White Papers The second is the instrumentation of disk drive suspensions with vibration sensing strain gages, in order to enhance airflow-induced suspension vibration suppression in hard disk drives. This paper discusses two mechatronic innovations in magnetic...
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
EngCalc (Automotive) - Palm Calculator
Downloads New look Scientific Evaluator.List of Calculators Airflow Alternate DepressionCFM of Carburetor (Displacement in)Circle Surface AreaCoil Spring RateCone Surface AreaCoolant PercentageCoolant VolumeCost-Annual Gas Cost ApproximationCrawl RatioCrawl...
[March 13, 2006, 6:00]
But for the WORST buying experience ever from PC World, I may have rated it higher
Member Review For example the fan's airflow underneath the machine can easily be blocked when placed on one's lap -- hardly an option when using a laptop. Intially offered a Tosh that I rejected because as an engineer I needed a serial port without a USB interface.
[November 16, 2005, 14:19]
Supercomputer is F1 team's secret weapon
News Using a process called computational fluid dynamics (CFD) the team can simulate airflow around parts to aid downforce and aerodynamics and to improve the efficiency of engine and brake cooling. Formula One team BMW-Sauber has revealed the secret...
[January 5, 2007, 8:37]
Google and Sun will fight it out...
Talkback It's not that the concept is entirely without merit - a fixed configuration of servers in a shipping container allows airflow to be precisely modeled so as to enhance cooling efficiency. Just be pinged this comment from the guys at analysts The451...
[October 12, 2007, 17:29]
