Software-Defined Cooling With ZutaCore Lab

Zutacore HyperCool™ is a complete, two-phase, closed-loop solution for cooling a server's heat-emitting components such as the CPU, GPU, and FPGA. The HyperCool™ system is a two-phase evaporative cooling system consisting of the following sub-systems:

• Heat rejection unit (HRU), a self-contained system placed inside a standard 19" server rack that can handle up to 20 kW rack power in total.
• Rack-mounted refrigerant distribution units (RDU).
• Enhanced Nucleation Evaporators (ENE) assembled onto heat emitting components such as CPUs and GPUs.
• Service Unit, a self-contained system used to pump liquid refrigerant into the HRU and purge gas out of the system.
• The liquid used is dielectric, non-corrosive, non-toxic and fire-retardant.

The goal of this lab is to familiarize the user with the Zutacore Cooling Solution called HyperCool™. The lab user will access the Zutacore SDC (Software Defined Cooling) UI. The user will generate synthetic load on servers and view metrics on air-cooled and Zutacore cooled servers.

(2) Dell PowerEdge R640 Servers

(2) Dell PowerEdge R740 Servers

Zutacore Hypercool control unit and components