Angstrom Microsystems Inc, a Green computing specialist, is announcing the world’s first AMD Opteron™ Barcelona processor-based blade server cooling using Angstrom’s unique LiquiBlade™ cooling technology. These high-density blade servers eliminate the need for data center air-conditioning, saving nearly 25% of a data center’s electricity budget. Easy to deploy and maintain, Angstrom LiquiBlades are design to cool the latest AMD Opteron™ processors using a non-conductive fluid instead of water, thus eliminating the risk of data center disruption due to spillage.
“Angstrom’s compute hungry customers are looking forward to deploying the quad-core AMD Opteron Barcelona,” said Lalit Jain, CEO of Angstrom Microsystems, “With our patent-pending cooling technology, Angstrom offers 832 cores per rack, setting the mark for high density liquid cooled AMD server solutions.”
The Angstrom LiquiCool servers provide the same features as existing air-cooled solutions, with the added advantage of reducing overall power usage. Instead of being forced to accommodate for its new computing by building a new data center, a typical LiquiCool customer need only make minor modifications to their existing datacenter, thus saving significant capital infrastructure expense. A LiquiCool using AMD Opteron processors is comprised of four stacked nests, each nest housing 13 QuadraBlade 850’s for a total of 4 x 13 blade, or 52 blades. Angstrom’s cooling fluid is non-conductive, non-flammable, non-toxic and environmentally friendly – it is approved under the Kyoto treaty. Angstrom competitors provide either water-cooled to environmentally unfriendly solutions.
“Angstrom LiquiCool blade servers highlight the power of the AMD Opteron Barcelona processors,” said Ben Williams, director of Server and Workstation Marketing at AMD. “LiquiBlade servers are an example of the kind of Green computing that can provide customers with low-cost high-performance solutions designed to operate in challenging environments.”
