Saving on Data Center TCO with Liquid Cooling Technology
When you think of a server room or data center, the first thing that comes to mind is endless rows of server racks, incredible noise, and often frigid air temperatures. All of that is a result of the incredible density of computing components (CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, RAM…) and the monumental amounts of heat they generate. This has been the standard approach for many years.
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Recently, there has been a paradigm shift towards more sustainable and eco-friendly data centers and HPC facilities in order to combat climate change. Liquid cooling technology plays an integral role in this transition and is the only solution that can push the PUE (Power Usage Efficiency) towards 1.0 and unlock greater computational densities that various industries (AI, animation studios, big data processing, etc.) require.
Numerous traditional data centers, whether old or new, that rely on air cooling technology and heavily utilize air conditioning systems, tend to use up to 40% of their total power consumption on cooling alone. This figure is further skewed because the “IT load” usually accounts for the server components and server fans, which use a staggering 10% of the total power consumption on their own. Modern liquid-based cooling technology addresses these shortcomings by absorbing the generated heat into the coolant and dissipating it into the environment with “free cooling” methods and a significantly reduced reliance on mechanical liquid chilling and air conditioning.?
Learn more about how we have integrated all of the benefits of liquid cooling in our EK Fluid Works workstations to deliver the ultimate high-performance desktop and server solutions.
But energy-based efficiency is not the whole story. Despite modern chip manufacturing techniques, major manufacturers like Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA are struggling to keep the power consumption down while delivering generational performance improvements. This drive for increased performance at all costs has yielded industry GPUs that are pushing into the 600W range per chip and over 280W per CPU. ?
These power draw numbers are extremely difficult to cool using traditional air cooling, as it requires lower intake-air temperatures and increased power consumption for the air conditioning systems. However, liquid cooling can safely and reliably handle such high heat generation and keep the component temperature 30% lower compared to air-cooling.?
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Our EK Fluid Works Compute Series X7000-RM GPU server is a great example of what liquid cooling is truly capable of. It manages to pack seven NVIDIA A6000 GPUs, along with an AMD Milan-X Epyc processor and the entire liquid-cooling system in a 5U chassis. ?It boasts a fully modular liquid cooling system that can be easily serviced, redundant pumps and PSUs, with monstrous AI, ML, and rendering capabilities.
Liquid cooling methods (in order of potential PUE):
You can read further in detail about each of these cooling solutions in our blog “Cooling Solutions for Modern HPC Facilities and Data Centers”.
When we also consider the rising prices of energy, increased water scarcity, and limited land availability for data centers (in some countries), we realize that the value of the technology that can solve these problems is multiplied several times.
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