Direct liquid cooling could be a game changer for supercomputing [Video]

Direct liquid cooling is the future of energy-efficient data centers, according to Seguente Inc., a global energy and thermal management company.

Seguente has partnered with Dell Technologies Inc. and artificial intelligence powerhouse Nvidia Corp. to transform existing computing racks so that the cooling mechanisms are more sustainable and support higher workloads.

“Cooling is just a tool to enable energy-efficient computing,” said Tim Shedd (pictured, left), engineering technologist, Office of the CTIO, at Dell Technologies Inc. “What we did with the H100 servers … we’re deploying those 64 GPUs with a rear door heat exchanger. So, we liquid-cooled the rack while keeping water out of the chassis. It turns out that met a whole bunch of TCO energy efficiency and the ability to deploy very quickly to the customer met all those requirements all at once.”

Shedd, Raffaele Luca Amalfi (right), co-founder and chief executive officer of Seguente, and Dion Harris (second from left), director of accelerated data center GTM at Nvidia Corp., spoke with …