In a new report updating market shares for 2009 and provisional market share for 2010, IMS Research says 2010 was a year of tremendous growth in the LED industry, dramatically higher than the typical growth…read more
Chevy Volt’s Cooling Systems Include Power Electronics Coolant Loop
December 14th, 2010
A GM article explaining the Chevrolet Volt’s cooling/heating systems notes that the power electronics coolant loop is designed to insure the main underhood electronics do not overheat during use. It is essential that the heat…read more
Federal Government Data Center Consolidation Under Way
December 14th, 2010
Now that the first two phases of the federal government’s long-term data center consolidation effort have been completed, the plan to reduce the number of federal data centers by 40% by 2015 has been put…read more
ElectronicsCooling Winter 2010 Issue
December 6th, 2010
Don’t miss out on the Winter 2010 issue of ElectronicsCooling, which includes a sneak peek at SEMI-THERM 27, feature articles on open bath immersion cooling, and energy consumption of data centers, as well as technical…read more
Editorial
December 6th, 2010
Robert Simons Editor-in-Chief, Winter 2010 Issue Resolutions As you read this editorial we are fast approaching the end of another year. For some, this is a time for introspection. Who has not, at sometime, looked…read more
Calculation Corner: Thermal Interactions Between High-Power Packages and Heat Sinks, Part 1
December 6th, 2010
Bruce Guenin, PhD Associate Technical Editor The need to accommodate increasing chip power has led to improved package and heat sink designs having much lower thermal resistance values than previously. This has led to challenges…read more
Thermal Facts and Fairy Tales: Fixed Temperature and Infinite Heatsinking
December 6th, 2010
By Jim Wilson Associate Technical Editor In keeping with the name of this column, the fact worth reminding is that a fixed temperature boundary condition in a thermal simulation represents an infinite heat sink. The…read more
Open Bath Immersion Cooling In Data Centers: A New Twist On An Old Idea
December 6th, 2010
Phil Tuma 3M Company, St. Paul, Minnesota The inefficiencies of legacy datacenter air cooling schemes are by now well known. New “Free Air” cooling technologies in which air is introduced to the racks in a…read more
Keeping Moore’s Law Alive
December 6th, 2010
Peter E. Raad Southern Methodist University and TMX Scientific, Inc., Dallas, Texas A recent news item [1] described the intended efforts of researchers from IBM, EPFL, and ETH to “keep Moore’s Law for another 15…read more
Energy Consumption of Information Technology Data Centers
December 6th, 2010
Madhusudan Iyengar and Roger Schmidt IBM, Poughkeepsie, New York Many of our day-to-day activities, including Internet searches, handheld electronics usage, automated cash withdrawal, and online hotel and airline reservations, require the use of remote databases…read more
Beer Fridge – A Case Study in Thermal Design. Part 1 – A Gift
November 26th, 2010
My boss, Roland, relocated from Germany to the UK a couple of years ago and has taken to life in England with alacrity. As a gift for the Mechanical Analysis product development department (Hampton Court) he bought a little fridge which has been busy ever since cooling the beer in it that everyone has been [...]
Multidirectional Mini Blower for Air-Flow Applications
November 23rd, 2010
Providing a solution for customized air-flow applications, JARO’s new JRB2235 series rotates at 8500 RPMs and produces a powerful 1.2 CFM of super-cooled air (with a static pressure of .122″ of H2O). Operating voltage is…read more
iPhone App for Data Center Managers
November 22nd, 2010
Raritan’s Power IQ® iPhone app helps data center and lab managers “on the go” quickly view real-time power load (watts and amps) and perform secure remote power control on any server or rack power distribution…read more
Gift Idea for the LED Lover
November 22nd, 2010
Using LED technology, the Eye Twirkle shirt by CuteCircuit features smart textiles and microcontrollers that know when to glow based on your movement. The shirt is available in cotton/Elastane with microfiber and crystal decoration. Get…read more
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