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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 24, 1997
Robert S Antonuccio, Burlington, MA (US);
Thomas E Stewart, Los Altos, CA (US);
Joseph M Spano, North Reading, MA (US);
Mathew J Palazola, Glochester, MA (US);
William A Izzicupo, Windham, NH (US);
James M Carney, Pepperell, MA (US);
Daniel D Gonsalves, Hudson, NH (US);
Mark R Pugliese, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a computer system and method thereof characterized by high airflow and low acoustic noise by separating the enclosure of the system into two sections, in which in one section cooling fans are arranged between power supply units and disk drives, the power supply units being located at the back of the section and the fans, as to the disk drives, serving as exhaust fans, and in the other section inlet fans are arranged to cool selected hardware electrical elements, such as CPU modules, PCI and graphics cards, wherein the placement of the inlet fans is selected to minimize pre-heated air and fan airflow paths are controlled and directed by an air dam to maximize the cooling effect, and noise damping material is employed in mounting the rack for the disk drives, the disk drives and fans and in forming the side walls of the enclosure.