Liquid Cooling
Active Rear-Door Heat Exchanger
An Active Rear-Door Heat Exchanger is a chilled-water coil mounted on the back of a rack with integral…
Liquid Cooling
Blind-Mate Connector
A Blind-Mate Connector is a self-aligning fluid coupling that joins a server's coolant inlet and outlet to a…
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Boiling Enhancement Coating
A Boiling Enhancement Coating is a textured or porous surface treatment applied to chips, cold plates or immersion…
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Cold Plate
A Cold Plate is a metal heat-transfer block, usually copper or aluminum, mounted on a processor or accelerator…
Liquid Cooling
Coolant Chemistry
Coolant Chemistry is the composition and treatment of the fluid used in a liquid-cooling loop, including corrosion inhibitors,…
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Coolant Distribution Unit
A Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU) is a system that circulates and controls coolant to liquid-cooled IT equipment, isolating…
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Coolant Filtration Skid
A Coolant Filtration Skid is a packaged assembly of filters, pumps and valves that continuously cleans the fluid…
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Coolant Manifold
A Coolant Manifold is a distribution component that splits a single supply and return line into multiple branches…
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Dielectric Fluid
A Dielectric Fluid is a non-conductive, thermally efficient liquid used in immersion and two-phase cooling systems that can…
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Direct Liquid Cooling
Direct Liquid Cooling (DLC) is an umbrella term for technologies that bring liquid coolant into direct thermal contact…
Liquid Cooling
Direct-to-Chip Cooling
Direct-to-Chip Cooling removes heat by circulating liquid coolant through cold plates mounted directly on processors, GPUs or other…
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Drip Tray
A Drip Tray is a shallow containment pan installed beneath liquid-cooling components such as manifolds, coolant distribution units…
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Facility Water System
A Facility Water System is the primary water loop that carries heat from the data hall's cooling equipment…
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GPU Liquid Cooling
GPU Liquid Cooling is the application of liquid cooling, typically direct-to-chip cold plates or immersion, to graphics processing…
Liquid Cooling
Immersion Cooling
Immersion Cooling submerges servers or components in a thermally conductive dielectric fluid that absorbs heat directly from the…
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Immersion Tank
An Immersion Tank is a sealed bath filled with dielectric fluid into which servers are submerged for cooling,…
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Leak Detection
Leak Detection is the monitoring of liquid-cooling systems to identify coolant escapes quickly and trigger alarms or shutoffs…
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Liquid-Cooled Rack
A Liquid-Cooled Rack is a cabinet engineered to deliver coolant to the IT equipment it houses, through cold…
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Liquid-to-Air CDU
A Liquid-to-Air CDU is a coolant distribution unit that rejects heat from the technology cooling loop directly into…
Liquid Cooling
Liquid-to-Liquid CDU
A Liquid-to-Liquid CDU is a coolant distribution unit that transfers heat between a facility water system and a…
Liquid Cooling
Passive Rear-Door Heat Exchanger
A Passive Rear-Door Heat Exchanger is a finned chilled-water coil fitted to a rack's rear door that relies…
Liquid Cooling
Propylene Glycol Solution
A Propylene Glycol Solution is a water-based coolant mixed with propylene glycol, commonly at 25 to 40 percent…
Liquid Cooling
Pumped Two-Phase Cooling
Pumped Two-Phase Cooling is a liquid-cooling method in which a low-boiling-point dielectric fluid is circulated by a pump…
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Quick Disconnect Coupling
A Quick Disconnect Coupling (QD) is a fitting that lets liquid-cooling connections be joined or separated rapidly with…
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Rear Door Heat Exchanger
A Rear Door Heat Exchanger (RDHx) is a liquid-cooled coil that replaces or mounts on a cabinet's rear…
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Secondary Cooling Loop
A Secondary Cooling Loop is the closed circuit that carries treated coolant between a coolant distribution unit and…
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Single-Phase Immersion
Single-Phase Immersion is a cooling method in which IT equipment is submerged in a dielectric fluid that stays…
Liquid Cooling
Technology Cooling System
A Technology Cooling System (TCS) is the isolated secondary loop that circulates conditioned coolant directly to liquid-cooled IT…
Liquid Cooling
Two-Phase Direct-to-Chip Cooling
Two-Phase Direct-to-Chip Cooling is a cold-plate technology in which a dielectric refrigerant boils inside the cold plate as…
Liquid Cooling
Two-Phase Immersion
Two-Phase Immersion is a cooling method in which components are submerged in a low-boiling-point dielectric fluid that vaporizes…
Liquid Cooling
Warm-Water Cooling
Warm-Water Cooling is a liquid-cooling strategy that supplies coolant to IT hardware at elevated temperatures, typically 30 to…