GIGABYTE launched a series of servers for single-phase liquid immersion cooling aimed at data center applications. The two immersion cooling tanks comply with the legacy EIA 19in rack and Open Compute Platform (OCP) specifications and an immersion ready server, the G152-Z12. Combining years of R&D and deployment experience in the field of immersion cooling with customized servers and liquid cooling tank products will help speed up deployment of the power management technologies and boost system performance.
Single-phase immersion cooling, where the boards are in direct contact with the dielectric fluid coolant to conduct the heat away has been shown to reduce total energy consumption of data center by greater than 30% and improve power usage efficiency (PUE) to below 1.1. Gigabyte has been working with Spanish immersion cooling specialist Submer on the technology.
The 25U EIA Tank supports a single 21U rack and four 1U (EIA) racks. The second, the 18OU OCP Tank, supports a single 18OU (OCP) rack, a 2OU (power chassis) rack, and two 1U (EIA) racks. They support the recently announced immersion cooling ready servers: G292-Z45, G292-Z43, G292-280, H262-Z6B and S251-3O0. The tank provides up to 80 kW of heat dissipation in footprint of 2.0 m x 0.9 m, providing an option for deploying density-optimized solutions in a limited space. Gigabyte has also added a new G-series server, G152-Z12, that is GPU-centric for immersion cooling. The G152-Z12 can support a single 64-core AMD EPYC 7003 processor with a power enveloper of 280W TDP as well as two dual-slot (rev.200) or four single-slot (rev.400) cards, providing suitable hardware architecture options for users with different application needs. The server is also compatible with mainstream single-phase immersion cooling tanks in the market.
