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Cooling · RDHx · 2010

Rear-door heat exchanger

Liquid coil in the cabinet door; a retrofit path for air-cooled halls.

Why this part

A retrofit path rather than a design: leave the servers air-cooled and hang a water coil in the back door, so the air leaving the rack is already at room temperature and the room never gets hot. It requires no change to the node, which is exactly the point, and it is how an existing air-cooled hall buys another generation of density without being rebuilt. The compromise is that it still moves heat with air first, so it stops well short of what direct-to-chip achieves.

Systems using this part

No systems in the current dataset record this part. It is carried in the taxonomy so the graph is complete, and so edges can attach to it as coverage grows.

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