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Supercomputing 2009, Portland Oregon; 17^th November 2009: Iceotope (www.iceotope.com) today launched its new liquid-cooled server technology. The system is believed to be the first to use modular “liquid immersion” of the server components and is able to reduce data centre cooling costs by 93%, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars over its lifetime. The technology is being demonstrated for the very first time at the Supercomputing 2009 event in Portland, Oregon (November 17^th-19^th 2009). The demonstration can be found on Booth 2355.

Operators of traditional air cooled data centres have to spend around 30% or more of their electricity costs on cooling. Running the Computer Room Air Conditioning (CRAC) units and the associated refrigeration plant (chillers) is a huge energy burden, increasing costs and carbon output, yet is necessary to chill the large quantities of cold air that must be blown around the data centre to keep the sensitive components inside the servers cool.

To cool a typical air cooled data centre, running around 1,000 servers, costs in the region of $788,400 over three years. With the Iceotope system, data centre operators can reduce or eliminate the requirement to run the CRAC units and chillers by directly connecting the liquid cooled servers to a recirculating “warm” (rather than chilled) water supply that transfers heat from the servers to the air outside the data centre. Iceotope calls this approach “end to end liquid” cooling. In a data centre in which all servers are cooled this way, the cooling costs can be reduced by as much as 93%, bringing the cost down to only $52,560.

Fantastic, I know quite a few CIOs are excited about the concept and I’m certainly interested to find out more, anything we can do to reduce the cooling costs in the data center has to be a good thing. It will be interesting to see how the technology might fit in with existing infrastructure. I’m off to check it out, could this be combined with VMware/Grid to bring us higher volume, condense solutions at lower operating costs?

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