Nvidia Corporation

Baidu USA LLC

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Oracle America, Inc.

Twitter, Inc.

Baidu.com Times Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd.

Oracle International Corporation

Ali Heydari

Tianyi Gao

Yan Cui

Charles J Ingalz

Harold Miyamura

Jeremy Rodriguez

Chien Ouyang

Kenneth Clayton Gross

Weiyu Wendy Lu

Xiaogang Sun

Pardeep Shahi

Manasa Sahini

Eric Mahendra Kumar

Kenny C Gross

Shuai Shao

Vadim Gektin

Ji L Yang

Alexander Toichi Ishii

Alex R Naderi

Mike Sabotta

Uschas Chowdhury

Vladimir Troy

Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, an in-rack refrigerant distribution unit (RDU) distributes refrigerant to one or more colds plates in association with a pressure control system to enable a pressure-drop before an expansion valve for a liquid-phase of a refrigerant based in part on a pressure of a liquid-phase of a refrigerant exceeding a first threshold and based in part on a temperature associated with one or more cold plates being below a second threshold.

In-rack refrigerant distribution unit with pressure control system

A system includes one or more first cooling loops to cool one or more first components within one or more servers having a first power density, and one or more second cooling loops to cool one or more second components within the one or more servers having a second power density. The system can flow first coolant to cold plates to cool high-power server components and flow second coolant to cool low-power server components by immersion cooling.

Dual-mode datacenter cooling system with cooling loops and heat exchangers

Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a cold plate has microchannels and a heat pipe to support a first fluid in an active mode of operation of a cold plate that uses microchannels, and to support a second fluid in a passive mode of operation of a cold plate that uses a heat pipe.

Intelligent cold plate system with active and passive features for a datacenter cooling system

Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a refrigerant-to-air (R2A) heat exchanger is interfaced with at least one cold plate to absorb heat from at least one computing device using a two-phase fluid and is interfaced with a compressor or condensing unit that causes dissipation of at least part of the heat within a datacenter.

Intelligent two-phase refrigerant-to-air heat exchanger for datacenter cooling systems

Systems and methods include a first valve that controls a flow rate of a coolant. A processor is configured to set the flow rate of the coolant to a rate that maintains a vapor quality, measured at an outlet of the coolant, within a predetermined quality range.

Intelligent two-phase pumped cooling

Configurations for cooling systems are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a fluid manifold is positioned to couple directly to one or more liquid-cooled server connections to form a connection when the liquid-cooled server is in an installed position within a server rack.

Quick disconnect blind-mate manifold

Systems and methods for testing in a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, an aluminum nitride (Al—N) heat spreader includes, on one side, a patterned heat trace having a first concentration pattern that is dense relative to a second concentration pattern of a patterned heat trace, which all form part of a thermal test vehicle (TTV) to replicate heat generation by a computing device in a test of a datacenter cooling system.

Pattern-enabled aluminum nitride thermal test vehicle for datacenter cooling systems

A datacenter cooling system is disclosed. The system includes a first cooling loop with a heat exchanger to exchange heat with a second cooling loop. The second cooling loop includes a cooling distribution unit (CDU) to exchange heat between the second cooling loop and a primary cooling loop.

Universal pluggable datacenter cooling system

Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a liquid-to-air heat exchanger is associated with a fan wall and a refrigerant-based cooling system to provide air cooling and refrigerant-based cooling to cool secondary coolant or fluid received from at least one cold plate.

Intelligent refrigerant-assisted liquid-to-air heat exchanger for datacenter cooling systems

Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, multiple parallel refrigerant paths are associated with one or more flow controllers to cool multiple computing devices associated therewith, so that one or more flow controllers can distribute equal measures of a liquid phase of refrigerant, relative to a vapor phase of a refrigerant, to such parallel refrigerant paths based in part on a cooling requirement from at least one of such multiple computing devices.

Parallel refrigerant cooling in datacenter cooling systems

A system comprising an adapter plate to couple a plurality of different types of cooling manifolds to one or more racks in a datacenter is disclosed. Additionally, a system comprising an adapter plate to adaptively couple a cooling manifold to a plurality of different types of server racks is disclosed.

Fastening systems for manifolds of datacenter racks

Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a cold plate includes an evaporator to remove heat from at least one computing device using a two-phase fluid and using a buffer to perform flow stabilization represented by different volumes or different flow rates of a two-phase fluid that is enabled to flow between an evaporator and a condensing or compressor unit located external to a cold plate.

Intelligent low pressure two-phase cold plate with flow stabilization for datacenter cooling systems

A cold plate that is configurable and for a datacenter liquid cooling system is disclosed. The cold plate includes a first section, a second section, and an intermediate layer, which is changeable and has first channels to enable flow of a coolant through the intermediate layer, and has second channels or at least one adapted second channel to concentrate the coolant or the flow of the coolant to at least one area within the configurable cold plate corresponding to at least a heat generating feature of an associated computing device.

Configurable cold-plates of datacenter cooling systems

A cooling system for a datacenter is disclosed. The datacenter cooling system includes a cooling manifold having a first controllable fluid coupler to receive a coolant from a cooling loop external to the rack and one or more second controllable fluid couplers to distribute the coolant to one or more server cooling manifolds within server trays of a rack within the datacenter.

Intelligent and integrated liquid-cooled rack for datacenters

Systems and methods for cooling a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a fluid reservoir in a form-factor of at least one rack is provided, the fluid reservoir to store fluid, the fluid to be passed to a cold plate or an immersive-cooled server, and the fluid to be cooled by a secondary cooling loop or an air-cooling system.

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