- Up to 40% power savings of data center
- Faster time-to-deployment and reduced time-to-online by
providing end-to-end liquid-cooling solution
- Up to 40% reduced water consumption with warm water cooling now
available at an inlet temperature of up to 45°C, reducing the
necessity of chillers
- Enabling quiet data center operation at ~50dB
SAN
JOSE, Calif., May 14, 2025
/PRNewswire/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a Total
IT Solution Provider for AI/ML, HPC, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge,
is announcing several improvements to its Direct Liquid Cooling
(DLC) solution that incorporate new technologies for cooling
various server components, accommodate warmer liquid inflow
temperatures, and introduce innovative mechanical designs that
enhance AI per watt. The Supermicro DLC-2 solution reduces data
center power consumption by up to 40% compared to air-cooled
installations. These advanced technologies enable faster deployment
and reduced time-to-online for cutting-edge liquid-cooled AI
infrastructure. Additionally, the total cost of ownership decreases
by up to 20%. The comprehensive cold plate coverage of components
allows for lower fan speeds and fewer required fans, significantly
reducing data center noise levels to approximately 50dB.
"With the expected demand for liquid-cooled data centers rising
to 30% of all installations, we realized that current technologies
were insufficient to cool these new AI-optimized systems," said
Charles Liang, president and CEO of
Supermicro. "Supermicro continues to remain committed to
innovation, green computing, and improving the future of AI, by
significantly reducing data center power and water consumption,
noise, and space. Our latest liquid-cooling innovation, DLC-2,
saves data center electricity costs by up to 40%."
For more information, please visit
www.supermicro.com/liquid-cooling
Supermicro aims to save 20% of data center costs and apply DLC-2
innovations as part of data center building block solutions to make
liquid-cooling more broadly available and accessible.
A significant component of the new liquid-cooling architecture
is a GPU-optimized Supermicro server, which includes eight NVIDIA
Blackwell GPUs and two Intel® Xeon® 6 CPUs,
all in just 4U of rack height. This system is designed to support
increased supply coolant temperatures. This unique and optimized
design incorporates cold plates for CPUs, GPUs, memory, PCIe
switches, and voltage regulators. This design reduces the need for
high-speed fans and rear-door heat exchangers, thereby lowering
cooling costs for the data center.
The new Supermicro DLC-2 solution stack supports the new 4U
front I/O NVIDIA HGX™ B200 8-GPU system, and the in-rack Coolant
Distribution Unit (CDU) has an increased capacity of removing 250kW
of heat generated per rack. The Supermicro DLC-2 solution also
utilizes vertical coolant distribution manifolds (CDMs) to remove
hot liquid and return cooler liquid to the servers for the entire
rack. The reduced rack space requirements enables more servers to
be installed, increasing computing density per unit of floor space.
The vertical CDM is available in various sizes, precisely matching
the number of servers installed in the rack. The entire DLC-2
solution stack is fully integrated with Supermicro SuperCloud
Composer® software for data center-level management and
infrastructure orchestration.
The efficient liquid circulation and nearly full liquid-cooling
heat capture coverage, at up to 98% per server rack, allow for an
increase in the inlet liquid temperature at up to 45°C. The higher
inlet temperature eliminates the need for chilled water, chiller
compressor equipment cost, and additional power usage, saving up to
40% of data center water consumption.
Combined with liquid-cooled server racks and clusters, DLC-2
also offers hybrid cooling towers as well as water towers as part
of data center building blocks. The hybrid cooling towers combine
the features of standard dry and water towers into a single design.
This is especially beneficial in data center locations with strong
seasonal temperature variation to reduce usage of resources and
costs further.
Supermicro serves as a comprehensive one-stop solution provider
with global manufacturing scale, delivering data center-level
solution design, liquid-cooling technologies, networking, cabling,
a full data center management software suite, L11 and L12 solution
validation, onsite deployment, and professional service and
support. With production facilities across San Jose, Europe, and Asia, Supermicro offers unmatched
manufacturing capacity for liquid-cooled rack systems. This ensures
timely delivery, reduced total cost of ownership (TCO), and
consistent quality.
About Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in
Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in
San Jose, California, Supermicro
is committed to delivering first-to-market innovation for
Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are
a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, switch
systems, software, and support services. Supermicro's motherboard,
power, and chassis design expertise further enables our development
and production, enabling next-generation innovation from cloud to
edge for our global customers. Our products are designed and
manufactured in-house (in the US, Taiwan, and the
Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and
efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental
impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server
Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their
exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of
systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that
support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory,
GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions
(air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).
Supermicro, Server Building Block Solutions, and We Keep IT
Green are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Super Micro
Computer, Inc.
All other brands, names, and trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.
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