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Essential Cooling System Requirements for Next Generation Data Centers
White Papers This paper presents a categorized and prioritized collection of cooling system challenges and requirements as obtained through systematic user interviews. Effective mission critical installations must address the known problems and challenges...
[April 6, 2005, 0:00]
Intelligent cooling system designed to cut data centre bills
News Degree's Adaptivcool system consists of a series of sensors, hubs and other cooling components linked together. This cooling system pinpoints hot spots inside a computer room and directs cool air from the room's air conditioner to that spot.
[January 4, 2006, 9:00]
Run, don't walk away from Dell!
Member Review The fan cooling (actually, the "lack of" cooling system) is a major problem. It seems that the tech support guys walk you through a maze of "try this, and see what happens" before they tell you that it will cost you an arm and both legs to replace...
[October 13, 2005, 8:25]
A Comparison of HP BladeSystem With Thermal Logic Technologies to Competitive Systems
White Papers Hewlett-Packard Corporation has introduced a line of blade server products with a radically redesigned power and cooling system. According to HP advertising, the "HP Thermal Logic" power and cooling system represents a new approach that...
[May 11, 2007, 1:00]
NEC to launch water-cooled notebooks
News Japanese electronics firm NEC has announced a water-cooling system for notebooks, desktops and servers that promises less noise and greater cooling power compared to standard air-cooling. NEC claims several improvements on it water-cooling system.
[July 1, 2003, 7:49]
Fujitsu launches 18-blade 'Dynamic Cube'
News Fujitsu announced a blade server system on Tuesday that fits up to 18 blades into a 10U chassis and is designed to make cooling more efficient than in the company's previous systems. The BX900 uses a new cooling system, called Cool-safe, that the...
[May 12, 2009, 16:51]
Silence is golden (or black, or silver)
News It uses a new cooling technology to eliminate all fans from the system so it produces no noise at all during normal operation. This chassis is the key to the system, having cooling fins down both sides that help dissipate the heat generated by the...
[March 13, 2003, 14:17]
CO2 used to cool blade servers
News The system, announced publicly on Wednesday, has been developed by Trox Advanced IT Cooling Systems (AIT), which hold the patents, in collaboration with refrigeration specialists Star Refrigeration. Although at this stage the companies are...
[February 2, 2006, 12:35]
SystemLoad
Downloads This can help in diagnosing the following issues: problems with the cooling system or temperature sensors problems with chirping noise experienced on some G5 systems and some portable computers problems with battery units of portable computers...
[March 25, 2009, 17:14]
Control Strategies for Plenum Optimization in Raised Floor Data Centers
White Papers As a result of high power density in data centers, mechanical engineers face more challenges in cooling system design. Thus, each link of the cooling system has to be optimized. One of the objectives for data center cooling systems is to remove...
[May 4, 2006, 10:17]
Design Methods for Attaining IBM System z9 Processor Cycle-Time Goals
White Papers In particular, although the processor-subsystem cycle-time improvement was driven primarily by the technology migration from CMOS 9S (130-nm lithography) for the prior IBM System z990 to CMOS 10S0 (90-nm lithography) for the new system, the...
[May 26, 2007, 1:00]
Your biggest fan review
Reviews The first is to take cooling to the extreme: dump the VW Beetle-style air cooling, and go with a system that can extract more heat without making a racket. When I got around to building a computer recently, I was surprised how much time I spent...
[September 13, 2004, 13:10]
Steam age tech takes heat off chips
News Cooligy has announced its Active Micro-Channel Cooling System, aimed squarely at the next generation of high-speed processors. Claiming a maximum heat removal capacity of 1000 watts per square centimetre -- the existing limit is around 250 watts...
[October 8, 2003, 16:25]
Dell SmartPC 250N review
Reviews Plenty of users are happy to put up with a bulkier, heavier and potentially noisier notebook (the result of the more substantial cooling system that’s required) in return for the smaller price tag for such a system.
[August 14, 2002, 10:13]
Nvidia: GeForce FX cooler than ever
News The cooling system is a crucial innovation, said Nvidia senior product manager Geoff Ballew, allowing the 125-million-transistor chip to run at full throttle without burning a hole in the PC's casing.
[November 19, 2002, 10:24]
Dell to sell advanced cooling systems for servers
News The liquid system cuts the cooling power load by about 30 to 50 percent as compared with other types of cooling systems, said Fred Stack, vice president of marketing for Emerson, in a presentation in San Francisco.
[June 29, 2007, 8:28]
Ethernet Power Study of Cisco and Competitive Products
White Papers An efficient cooling system would consume approximately 0.33 Btus for every Btu cooled, leading to a power consumption of 0.358W for cooling the heat dissipated by 1W. Other factors that should be considered are heat dissipation and the power...
[June 13, 2008, 1:01]
HP helps data centres play it cool
News Key to the technology is preventing hot spots that cause server failure; data centre operators aren't willing to accept higher risk with a more flexible cooling system. He called the technology the "dynamic smart-cooling controller".
[May 4, 2006, 10:25]
Liquid cooling returns in Egenera blades
News Liquid cooling systems don't remove overheating problems, but they can transfer the cooling process to a large-scale, high-capacity air conditioning system. A bigger difference is the close integration of cooling technology from Liebert, a...
[January 24, 2006, 8:25]
Fix noisy computer fans with a drop of oil
News Of course, each of these cooling fans is designed to keep the whole system as cool as possible by generating a constant airflow inside the case that will bring cool air in while moving the hot air out.
[June 3, 2003, 11:01]
