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Data Centres – The Status Quo

Who Are Iceotope?

• Liquid cooling technology company based in Sheffield, UK

• Backed By:• Aster Capital

• Schneider Electric• Solvay Specialist Plastics

• OMBU Group

• Additional partnerships with:• Intel• 3M

• Total Liquid Cooling

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The Cost Reduction Oasis

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The Elimination Of Waste

1. Waste infrastructure required to support servers

2. Waste power consumed in supporting the electronics –and running the same electronics with greater speed and efficiency

3. Waste product – producing a viable waste product in the form of hot water

The Iceotope Blade, developed in partnership with Intel, is sealed electronics are immersed

Exotic Coolant

High Thermal Expansivity

Electrical Insulator

Certified non-flammable

Non Ozone depleting

Clean & Safe

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Iceotope Revolution

Air Conditioners

IT Cabinets AKA “Racks”Each contains 10-20 Servers

Raised Floor

Back Up Batteries AKA “UPS” Generators

x4

External Coolers

x8

Power Distribution

1. TLC needs no A/C

3.TLC servers have no fans –use less power

2. No Airflow, no raised floor

4. No A/C, average and peak power consumption reduced

x10

x4

x8

x78

5. At least 2x as many servers per Cabinet

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Iceotope Revolution

Air Conditioners

IT Cabinets AKA “Racks”Each contains 40-72 Servers

Raised Floor

Back Up Batteries AKA “UPS” Generators

x4

External Coolers

x8

Power Distribution

1. TLC needs no A/C

3.TLC servers have no fans –use less power

2. No Airflow, no raised floor

4. No A/C, average and peak power consumption reduced

x10

x4

x8

x78

x3

x0

5. At least 2x as many servers per Cabinet

x2

x2

x8x4

x39

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Iceotope Efficiency Benefits

• Full time turbo mode, offering 10%-50% better IT performance• (Poznan National Supercomputing Centre published that full time turbo existed up to

40C input coolant)

• 40.8% better IT performance per watt • (vs state of the art hybrid liquid/air cooling at the University of Leeds)

Iceotope Prototype System

Poznan, Poland

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An early Iceotope

Blade containing an

Intel Dual CPU Server

Motherboard and SSD

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Questions?Thanks For Listening

Peter.Hopton@Iceotope.com

@petehopton @Iceotope

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