XTREME DB SYSTEMS (XDS), a Microsoft, AWS, SAP and DELL EMC Isilon Partner specializing in cloud landingzones, security and database infrastructure, will build a new smart data center with immersion cooling capabilities in Dubai.
XDS will offer customers next-generation smart data centers offering not only hosting facilities with power & traditional fan-based cooling but three options for nonconductive fluid cooling technology. This allows XDS customers rear door, horizontal rack and direct-to-chip cooling. The new XDS data center will allow customers an opportunity to either use normal racks or liquid cooling facilities.
Datacenters consume 4 percent of the global energy supply rising to 20 percent by 2025. In each data center, 38 percent of all power is consumed by cooling facilities. The carbon footprint of data centers is huge.
Immersion cooling is a form of liquid cooling in which the server is immersed in a bath of non-conduction liquid. Heat is transferred directly to the fluid without the need for additional cooling components such as heat sinks or fans. Since immersion cooling is more effective at dissipating heat, it allows servers to be packed close together, paving the way for high-density computing.
It also increases the power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratio while lowering maintenance requirements. The traditional rack can be condensed from 100 percent to 10 percent using high-density vertical cooling racks.
Immersion cooling paves the way for next-generation computing using NVIDIA GPUs for gaming, cryptocurrency mining and AI. Normal air-controlled cooling will not be able to provide the cooling solutions required for these next-generation applications.
For those organizations looking to leverage immersion-born technology, it’s vital to look at immersion servers currently leading the market.
For example, the Ciara Trident line of servers was the first to be developed specifically for single-phase immersion cooling. These servers offer ultra-high-density compute performance, up to 288 CPUs per 48U (144 nodes/18,432 cores). They are engineered to accommodate next-generation CPU, GPU, and FPGA cards.
XDS customers will be able to choose between traditional racks and immersion cooling infrastructure to host their hardware. In addition, XDS will offer enhanced smart hands. The traditional data center can be seen as just a place to store servers, ranging from F5 load balancers, Palo Alto Firewalls, your standard DL580’s or Isilon storage arrays, the list is endless. Enhanced smart hands service will provide a managed service offering software as a service, upgrades and decommissioning services.
XDS will manage web servers, operating systems and database platforms as a service. This is not provided by traditional data centers. The standard smart hands offering ranges from delivery management to simply powerdown customer hardware. XDS smart data centers will provide full production maintenance.
