Servers are noisy beasts, right? Anyone whose worked in a server environment knows that cooling the multitude of hot-running components requires considerable airflow that's achieved by, in the main, the use of numerous fans. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that server-oriented design is now focussed on increasing density year on year.
Boston Limited, a pan-European distribution partner for SUPERMICRO, is attempting to address the noise problem with its SuperCool water-cooled server. The 1U-sized box ships with Intel's latest Seaburg chipset and can accommodate the chip giant's quad-core 45nm Penryn-based server parts (Harpertown), released yesterday. The SuperServer 6015TW-TS features a 'two-node' design, offering potential 16-core compute power in the low-profile box.
What's far more interesting, however, is the manner by which the processors are cooled. Boston uses a Koolance watercooling solution to wick away the heat from four LGA771 processors, with the reservoir and pump located externally. Power consumption is lowered by up to 30 per cent, Boston states, thanks to the innovative design
The SuperServer 6015TW-TS will be on display at SuperComputing 2007 (SC07) in Reno, Nevada, booth 1229, so take a look if you happen to be present.
Read the press release here
