With cost effective and energy-efficient way cooling computer systems and data center, the IT department, has been a great challenge. Whether sorching summer or snow and ice cold, room need to run at a constant temperature air conditioning system security environment, makes the machine can be lasting and stable operation. The cost of the air conditioning system and become the IT department of a major expenditure items.
Data statistics, air conditioning and refrigeration in the data center. 25% of the energy consumption is not produced by computing equipment but by the cooling system to produce. Therefore, can good and carbon emissions, contributed to the cooling system pressure is more and more big. IBM also realize this, and early embarking on water technology development and application. In the past few years, thousands of companies benefit from IBM's Rear Door Heat Exchanger backplane Heat Exchanger technology, through the server frame backplane Heat dissipation, can reduce 55% of the air conditioning and refrigeration requirements.
IBM efficiency laboratory engineer Milnes David, is checking for each department of energy and the development of a water system. At present, this project has been near the end. It is aimed at the global 33 million PC server improve energy efficiency, IBM and thus gain and technology patent. The patent is mainly through the use of natural water to the server for cooling.
Now, let's review the IBM water technology development process, so as to help you for a deeper understanding of the water the feasibility of the technology and characteristics.
In 1966: IBM open water technology development
IBM first use water technology time can be traced back to 1966. At that time, IBM introduced a System / 360 type 91 large meter calculate machine. This type of computer was the fastest speed, the best performance of the machine, is mainly designed to deal with the scientific application of high speed data processing (such as space exploration, subatomic physics, global climate prediction, etc.). Therefore, in order to ensure that mainframes in long-term high speed operation won't happen overheating and either machine events, IBM is developed this kind of special water system.
IBM 3081 type machine is a new structure is very complicated mainframe (was born in on November 12, 1980). In this kind of machine has two most distinctive energy-efficient design. One from the 68 kw power before mainframe reduced to 23 kw, in addition to the built-in water technology, in the traditional design of air on the basis of the heat sink is new.
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