Motivair Cool News

As Motivair starts the new year, we like to take a small look back at 2023 and see what you found to be the most popular insights. Here are the top 10 blog posts from 2023:

1. Motivair Unveils New MCDU-30 For AI Workloads
Motivair Corporation, a global leader and innovator of direct liquid cooling and data center cooling technology, is pleased to announce its newest Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU) – the MCDU-30 – designed for artificial intelligence workloads. Created in collaboration with premier GPU manufacturers, data center and supercomputer operators, the MCDU-30 is tailored for hyperscale clients and businesses looking to leverage and deploy the latest AI.

2. Is Your Data Center Ready for Generative AI?
Artificial intelligence (AI) applications are growing by leaps and bounds. Whether it’s fraud prevention, virtual assistants, or personalized shopping, it’s becoming more and more intertwined in our daily lives. With its rapid adoption and expansion also comes a tradeoff: It is pushing compute densities beyond previous forecasts, posing new and urgent thermal challenges for data center operators and owners, highlighting the need for the latest in direct liquid cooling technology.

3. Dell: Single-Phase DLC Most Effective Cooling Solution
A recent Dell Technologies study shows single-phase direct liquid cooling the most thermally effective compared to four other data center cooling methods, highlighting a potential pathway for better sustainability and increased efficiencies. The study, titled “Performance Comparison of Five Data Center Server Thermal Management Technologies” by Dell technologists tested thermal models of leading data center cooling technologies including: Air cooling, Single-phase immersion, Two-phase immersion, Two-phase direct liquid cooling, Single-phase direct liquid cooling.

4. Motivair Unveils New Logo & Identity, Marking Next Era
Motivair Corporation has been integral with cooling data-driven daily necessities, mission-critical processes, & groundbreaking innovations for more than 30 years. In recognition of these relationships, the company today announced its new logo.The company’s profile has evolved over the last decade and is synonymous with cooling some of the most advanced technology on the planet, like the world's first and fastest exascale supercomputer.

5. Analysis: What Dell's Study Means for Data Center Cooling
A recent Dell Technologies study shows single-phase direct liquid cooling the most thermally effective compared to four other data center cooling methods. This highlights a potential pathway for better sustainability and increased efficiencies. Here are three important takeaways for data center operators and engineers to consider:

6. How Much Water Does It Take to Cool a Supercomputer?
Bloomberg looked at the recently deployed Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, illuminating the herculean effort it takes to cool such a system:

7. How Forever Chemical Designation May Impact HPC Cooling
The EPA’s recent designation of so-called “forever chemicals” will have a significant impact on the IT industry’s ability to leverage two-phase immersion and two-phase cold plate cooling solutions as it looks to manage thermal challenges in higher wattage GPUs and CPUs. In December, the EPA’s designated polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as PFAS, as hazardous substances. PFAS have also come under scrutiny in Europe, where some are urging an EU-wide ban on use of the substances.

8. What is Air-Assisted Liquid Cooling?
AI-led applications are growing at an unprecedented rate. While highly beneficial for a business, it’s forcing data center operators to rapidly pivot their infrastructure arsenal to keep up with the growing thermal demands at the chip level. Modern processors are getting hotter, faster. Direct liquid cooling has emerged as a thermally effective solution for high-performance computing, leaving data centers to wonder how to bring water into an historically air-cooled environment?

9. What is the Data Center Thermal Squeeze?
There’s a vicious cycle plaguing the data center industry. With each new advancement in data-heavy applications like artificial intelligence (Chat GPT), or machine learning, next generation processors are helping reach new innovations. Allowable chip package operating temperature has continued decreasing as power consumption and performance has increased. This has led to a steady progression in data center cooling technology and thermal effectiveness: We’re moving thermal management – and water – closer to the chip level to maintain optimal performance.

10. Motivair CEO to Speak at 2023 ASHRAE Annual Conference
Motivair CEO & President Rich Whitmore will speak on the future of data center cooling at the 2023 ASHRAE Annual Conference June 24-28,2023 in Tampa, Florida. This panel, "Future Data Centers: Road Map to Liquid Cooling Facility Design, Implementation, and Operation," will discuss the need for liquid cooling adoption and the road map of liquid cooling adoption strategies from design to facility operations, in accordance with ASHRAE TC9.9 efforts on liquid cooling.