Cooling the present and future.
Today’s data processing industry is aimed at creating and upgrading data centres for the use of very powerful High Density Servers in a scalable and extremely reliable environment. Industry standards such as TIER compliancy, as well as government legislation, are key factors in designing new and improved equipment for high performance data centres.
Compact High Density Servers, their enclosures and shared infrastructure interact perfectly, increasing efficiency, reducing overall dimensions and containing costs thanks to the elimination of duplicated resources which can often be seen in stack server execution within individual racks.
The power required for the running of these modern servers has increased in equal measure to the computing power. Current high density blade server racks with a width of 800 mm require a power supply of up to 25 kW. Such racks need around 4000 to 5000 m3/h of cooled air at full load in order to maintain optimum working conditions and reliability. Contrary to most “traditional” servers, high density servers are self-ventilated, thus granting horizontal air discharge through the rack itself.
This amount of air not only has to be available at all times, it also has to be distributed uniformly in order to ensure that even the servers positioned at the top of the rack, which typically suffer in terms of air distribution, are kept at a correct operating temperature.
In order to optimise the operation of powerful servers in high density data center areas with constantly increasing power and performance, Uniflair has designed and developed an evolved and flexible air conditioning system which rapidly adapts to thermal conditions, providing correct distribution, filtration, cooling and humidity control for modern IT equipment.