For the first time since 1995, IBM has begun shipping a water-cooled mainframe. Big Blue will now offer a version of its huge zEnterprise mainframe that uses a water-cooled heat exchanger.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego are running several racks of servers using 400 Volt DC power to analyze how this approach compares with the use of traditional AC power.
Austin-based Midas Networks will soon offer colocation customers the opportunity to submerge their servers in a liquid cooling enclosure from Green Revolution Cooling.
State legislation in Minnesota, Washington and Oregon will require the use of biodiesel in backup generators, and several other states are considering similar measures, according to SearchDataCenter.
Purdue University has developed software that can slow server activity as temperature rises, and has used this technique to keep the school's supercomputing data center operating throughout several cooling failures this summer.
What if your web server could generate its own power? Applied Methodologies Inc. has been working for several years to develop prototypes of servers and switches that use waste heat to generate power.
Critical Power solutions provider Active Power (ACPW) announced Wednesday that it has secured a new multi-year credit facility through Silicon Valley Bank. The $12.5 million line of credit replaces a $6 million credit facility set to expire later...
This paper will provides a detailed understanding of the capabilities and science of raised floor cooling, provide methods for testing tiles and provide a total cost of ownership example. One topic of particular interest is the concept of how to...