Author Archive for David S. De Lorenzo

Server Design Challenges for the High-heat-load Internet Data Center

February 1st, 2005

Introduction Microprocessor and system thermal management are linked to facility cooling: power dissipation and cooling techniques employed at one end of the size scale have cascading impacts at the other extreme (Figure 1). For example,…read more

Numerical Modeling and Experimental Verification of High-density Servers

November 1st, 2002

High-density hardware and software are developed as part of an initiative to greatly increase data center compute densities. Concept systems presented here are based on the Intel® Itanium™ processor family and are designed for a…read more