Water cooled servers have been around for more than a half a century.
Ibm water cooled servers.
Heat is removed from the system by circulating liquid into direct contact with hot components then through cool heat exchangers.
The initial implementation will be for ptp connectivity via the ibm z hmc se.
Your server configuration workload and server settings varies the amount of heat from the processor and the gpus that can be cooled by the water and the amount of cooling that is required for other components.
Ibm s water cooled system reduces server heat output in data centers by up to 55 compared to air cooled technology said tom bradicich cto for ibm s bladecenter and system x server product lines.
Ibm flex system x240 compute node 8737 8738 7863 ibm flex system x440 compute node 7917 ibm nextscale nx360 m4 5455 ibm smart analytics system 7949 ibm system x idataplex direct water cooled dx360 m4 server 7918 7919 ibm system x idataplex dx320 server 7326 6388 ibm system x idataplex dx360 m2 server 7321 6380 7323.
These systems followed the ibm 3090 with over a decade of follow ons the esa 390 was succeeded by the 64 bit z.
In the future ibm plans to introduce ptp as an external time source for ibm z server time protocol stp for an ibm z coordinated timing network ctn.
Ibm researchers have delivered a data center breakthrough that could have a major impact on power consumption carbon.
Increased standardization of liquid cooled designs will help expand their use by.
These systems were often highly customized and costly.
Ibm is just returning to water cooling servers after not using the technique since 1995.
Ibm will license its technology for cooling servers with water instead of air to a chicago area company.
In the past high performance mainframes were often water cooled and supplied as such by the ite manufacturer.
These were followed by the cmos system 390 mainframe family in the mid 1990s.
Immersion cooling is an it cooling practice by which it components and other electronics including complete servers are submerged in a thermally conductive dielectric liquid or coolant.
Z14 air cooled upgrades to ibm z15 water cooled z14 water cooled upgrades to ibm z15 water cooled.
Big blue abandoned water cooling after shipping its last bipolar mainframe with cmos complementary metal.
The ibm system 390 was the third generation of the system 360 instruction set architecture the first esa 390 computer was the enterprise system 9000 es 9000 family which were introduced in 1990.