Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Exaflop LLC

Alan W Lam

William Riis Hamburgen

Jimmy Clidaras

Ronald L Barnes

Andrew B Carlson

Satyanarayana Nishtala

Winnie Leung

Robert J Lajara

Jonathan Beck

Kenneth Kitlas

Montgomery Sykora

Craig M Leverault

Michael S Dann

Alan Lee Winick

Howard W Stolz

Selver Corhodzic

Jay K Osborn

Anita Patel

Kenneth A Lown

Michael F McCormick, Jr

Mohammed A Tantoush

Peter C Ta

Winiie C Leung

A power distribution apparatus includes a housing holding a plurality of electrical outlets, a plurality of independent electrical circuits within the housing, and a plurality of cord sets serving the plurality of independent electrical circuits and extending from the housing.

Data center power distribution

A computer system housing where a vertical printed circuit board, e.g., a riser card, is inserted into a socket on a computer system motherboard. Some internal space within the housing may allow optimization of system memory capacity through packing of additional memory modules on the riser card. The additional memory may be mounted on the riser card and may reside in the vertical space created between the riser card and the directly-mounted memory on the motherboard. The computer system housing further includes a chassis that may be partitioned into two separate sub-chassis for proper positioning of one or more cooling fans as well as to accommodate changes in computer system configurations with minimized retooling of the chassis. The cooling fans may be mounted at such locations on the chassis that allow optimization of air circulation and, hence, cooling within the housing. However, extra cooling fan(s) for the additional memory on the riser card may not be necessary in view of the creation of dedicated cooling channels within the housing by an efficient placement of the cooling fans. The optimization of fan placement within the housing results in efficient cooling of various system components and allows for increase in system component packing density without a similar increase in the number of cooling fans.

Computer system cooling configuration

A compact housing for a workstation-class computer is disclosed. The apparatus includes a structural heat sink with a horizontal base heat sink that includes an interchangeable power source housing and a hard disk drive receptacle. The horizontal base heat sink operates to conduct heat away from the functional elements positioned within the interchangeable power source housing and the hard disk drive receptacle. The structural heat sink also includes a vertical tower heat sink to support functional elements including a power converter. The vertical tower heat sink operates to conduct heat away from the functional elements. The vertical tower heat sink also includes support devices for receiving a detachable pivot display system. The structural heat sink is surrounded by a vented exterior skin that facilitates convective heat transfer from the structural heat sink.

Compact housing for a computer workstation

An extraction tool that provides for easy removal of a SIMM from a connector while preventing damage to the SIMM and the connector. The extraction tool is composed primarily of a handle portion and two arms. Each arm has a pin that couples to the holdes in a SIMM. Each arm is further comprised of an elbow portion to allow for pivoting motion of the extraction tool in order to pry a SIMM from its connector. Contact edges are provided on each arm to aid in positioning the extraction tool upon the upper edge of a connector. Each arm of the extraction tool has a chamfer surface to provide for proper coupling of a SIMM connector and to the holes in the ends of a SIMM while the SIMM is installed.

Simm extraction tool

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Fremont, CA, United States of America

Alan W Lam