Cloud Computing: 3M, Intel and SGI launch computer coolant
April 8, 2014
Grazed from StarTribune. Author: Dee Depass.
In a potentially major breakthrough for data centers, 3M Co. today announced a new cooling fluid for large computer systems that reduces the need for powerful air conditioners and slashes energy costs. The technology is being portrayed as a game changer for massive data centers, which have proliferated with the rise of cloud-based networks for businesses and consumers and as storage for so-called “big data” applications used by business and government.
Such centers today use lots of energy to run computer servers and storage arrays and also to cool off those machines from the heat they generate. 3M will demonstrate its new 3M Novec Engineered Fluid at its Maplewood headquarters later today along with partners IntelCorp. and SGI…
The fluid will be tested on Intel’s energy efficient processors and SGI’s high-performance computing systems. The cooling process is done in two phases and requires what officials called “immersion cooling technology.”…
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