Supermicro’s Direct-to-chip Liquid Cooling (DLC-2) portfolio offers a blend of infrastructure technology and services that can assist organizations in the design of liquid-cooled data center facilities and help simplify the deployment of liquid-cooled technology into existing data center environments. From a technology perspective, the portfolio includes liquid-cooled server systems along with its own in-house developed in-rack and in-row cooling distribution units (CDUs) and manifolds (CDMs) as well as cold-plate technology for CPUs, GPUs, and dual in-line memory modules, delivering a complete liquid-cooling rack and cluster solution.
To help simplify the adoption of liquid cooling technology into an existing data center environment, Supermicro offers liquid-to-air sidecars that integrate with its in-house developed manifolds (CDMs) in the liquid cooling rack solution. This enables rapid deployment and easy maintenance without interruption, enabling data centers to upgrade to high-density performance faster and more cost-effectively.
In addition, for new data center constructions, Supermicro offers infrastructure-level products such as water cooling towers and dry coolers in the liquid cooling system. Water cooling towers employ open-loop evaporative cooling to achieve near wet-bulb efficiency, making them the mainstream choice for new data centers in hot, humid climates. For water-limited areas, dry coolers use closed-loop air cooling to reject heat efficiently without water consumption, ensuring low maintenance and reliable, year-round performance. With a strong breadth of options, Supermicro is able to provide a cooling solution for any water condition.
From a benefits standpoint, Supermicro touts the ability to utilize warmer water (45º C) cooling and achieve up to 98% rack-level heat capture by its own design liquid-cooling and systems. For the data center, according to Supermicro, the adoption of direct liquid cooling can provide data center space savings of up to 60% and reduce the noise of the data center to as low as 50 dB, which is approximate to that of a quiet office or library environment.