The Schneider Electric, Iceotope, and Avnet partnership brings to market the industry’s first commercially available, integrated rack with chassis-based, immersive liquid cooling technology.
Integrated by Avnet with Schneider Electric’s NetShelter liquid-cooled enclosure system, this solution is designed for simple deployment into data centers and edge computing environments.
Liquid-cooled server specifications
This rack-mount, high-powered 3U GPU server is cooled via chassis-based, immersive liquid cooling. The system is configured with:
- (2) Cascade Lake 8276 Xeon processors 28 cores each; 1
- 28GB 2933 ECC RDIMM and
- (6) V100 Nvidia Tesla GPU’s.
This server allows for near silent operation with over 95% of the heat being removed via fluid. By eliminating the IT fans, server power consumption is reduced by up to 10%, providing immediate energy savings. Server maintenance is easily performed by features that include blind-mate dripless connectors in the rear and quick release latches for the chassis lid. The dielectric fluid sealed within the server chassis is touch safe, non-toxic, non-flammable, non-ozone depleting and has a lifespan of at least 20 years. Quick connect couplings are provided on the front of the server to allow for easy extraction of the dielectric fluid if needed for significant server upgrades or maintenance.
| Integrated Liquid Cooled Rack, System Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Rack Dimensions | 48U*, 600mm wide x 1250mm deep |
| Servers | 1 to 14 liquid-cooled 3U servers |
| Power | Up to 30kW |
| Input Power Circuits | 400/415V: 4 x 32A; IEC 309, 5 wire, up to 14 servers, redundant (NOTE: if deploying 10 or less servers, only 2 x 32A circuits required) |
| 208V: 2 x 60A; IEC 309, 3P+P, up to 8 servers, redundant | |
| Input Water Circuit | Temperature: non-condensing to 40C (104F) |
| Flow rate: Up to 8 l/min per server | |
| Temperature and flow rate based on 35% glycol mix | |
| Weight | 770kg (1692 lbs) fully configured with 14 servers |
| * 24U 1/2 rack option available | |
Features
- Single node solution including 1 immersive cooled server, 56 compute cores / 128 GB of memory / 6 V100 Tesla GPUs
- Sealed, fan-less server ideal for harsh environments
- Industry standard servers integrated with Iceotope’s liquid cooling technology
- Rack includes Schneider Electric rack PDU and NetBotz rack monitor, Lenovo RackSwitch
- Rack maximum configuration capacity: 14ea 3U Immersive-cooled GPU servers
- In-rack dielectric fluid fill/drain from front
- Blind-mate power and fluid connectors
- Latch locking for quick access service
- Integrated and supported by Avnet
Benefits
- Server agnostic
- pPUE 1.03
- Lower operating costs
- Energy effective
- Negligible water consumption
- Increased reliability
- Near silent operation
Liquid-Cooled Server
This rack-mount, high-powered 3U GPU server is cooled via chassis-based, immersive liquid cooling. The system is configured with: (2) Cascade Lake 8276 Xeon processors 28 cores each; 128GB 2933 ECC RDIMM and (6) V100 Nvidia Tesla GPU’s. Iceotope’s innovative chassis-based immersive cooling allows for near silent operation with over 95% of the heat being removed via fluid. By eliminating the IT fans, server power consumption is reduced by up to 10%, providing immediate energy savings. Server maintenance is easily performed by features that include blind-mate dripless connectors in the rear and quick release latches for the chassis lid. The dielectric fluid sealed within the server chassis is touch safe, non-toxic, non-flammable, non-ozone depleting and has a lifespan of at least 20 years. Quick connect couplings are provided on the front of the server to allow for easy extraction of the dielectric fluid if needed for significant server upgrades or maintenance.
NetShelter Liquid-Cooled Enclosure Systems
- 48U, 600mm wide x 1250mm deep
- 21” Mounting rails
- 24U option available
Based on the world’s most versatile rack, the Schneider Electric NetShelter Liquid-cooled Enclosure is built for chassis-based, immersive liquid-cooled servers. A fluid manifold comes installed at the rear of the rack for connection to a heat rejection system (not included). 48U-spaces provide the height necessary to scale the solution up to 14 x 3U GPU servers, in addition to accommodating the Lenovo network top-of-rack switch and Netbotz 250 Rack Monitor appliance.
These NetShelter Liquid-cooled racks are designed to address the challenge of rising chip densities and applications ranging from artificial intelligence to high performance computing. With a strong focus on cooling, power distribution, cable management and environmental monitoring, the NetShelter Liquid-cooled enclosure provides a reliable rack-mounting environment for power-dense mission-critical equipment.
NetShelter Metered Rack PDUs
- 208V, 230V, 400/415V options
- 0U/1U/2U mount options
Metered rack Power Distribution Units (PDUs) provide real-time remote monitoring of connected loads. User-defined alarms warn of potential circuit overloads before critical IT failures occur.
Schneider Electric NetBotz Rack Monitor 250
The NetBotz Rack Monitor 250 provides cost-effective and flexible environmental monitoring. Accessible through a browser, the NetBotz offers temperature and humidity (sensors included) monitoring to prevent equipment failure due to environmental extremes. A 4.5m NetBotz Spot Fluid Sensor is also included to monitor for leak detection in the heat rejection circuit.
Lenovo ThinkSystem NE1032 RackSwitch
The Lenovo ThinkSystem NE1032 RackSwitch is a 1U rack-mount, 10 Gb Ethernet switch that delivers lossless, low-latency performance with feature-rich design that supports virtualization, Converged Enhanced Ethernet (CEE), high availability, and enterprise class Layer 2 and Layer 3 functionality. The switch delivers line-rate, high-bandwidth switching, filtering, and traffic queuing without delaying data.
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