Rochester, MN – (September 12, 2014) – LiquidCool Solutions, Inc. announced today that CEO Herb Zien has been chosen to present at IDC’s HPC User Forum taking place in Seattle, Washington September 15 – 17. Zien will participate in a group discussion on the Disruptive Technologies Panel to be held Tuesday, September 16 at 4:30 PM local time.
LiquidCool Solutions (LCS) is a technology development firm with patents surrounding cooling electronics by total immersion in a dielectric fluid. The Company has been recognized as a “Cool Vendor” in Gartner’s 2014 Cool Vendors in Data Center Infrastructure Management, Power and Cooling report and received the North America Customer Value Enhancement Award in Data Center Cooling from Frost and Sullivan.
In explaining the disruptive quality of liquid cooling, Zien says, “Air is an insulator, and pushing cold air up from the floor makes no sense from an engineering perspective. Relying on fans to circulate air around and through racks chews up capital, space and energy, and exposes electronics to failure from oxidation. Total immersion in a dielectric fluid, at least the way LiquidCool applies the principle eliminates fans, thereby decoupling electronics from the room.”
In reviewing liquid cooling technologies, Andrew Donoghue, data center cooling analyst for 451 Research, said,” Even air-cooling apologists will admit that if the clock could be turned back liquid cooling is a more efficient way to cool data centers.”
Continued Zien, “It’s not a matter of if, but when. Data centers are beginning to accept minimal risk by gradually integrating liquid cooling technology without spending additional capital. The refresh rate for IT equipment in a data center is three to five years. By reserving a portion of the refresh expenditure for equipment using LCS cooling technology, the data center can quickly compare the new against legacy technology in terms of energy consumption and floor space requirements. Once the data center is completely converted, the full benefits will become apparent, particularly when the chillers are turned off permanently, CRAC units are scrapped and excess space reallocated.”
Zien has 30+ years of experience in project development, engineering management, power generation and energy conservation. He has been responsible for the development of numerous steam and power production projects, as well as the purchase and sale of energy-related businesses.
Before assuming the position of CEO at LiquidCool Solutions Herb was cofounder of ThermalSource, LLC, a firm that grew to become the largest owner and operator of District Energy Systems in the US, where he was principally responsible for project development and internal growth initiatives.
Mr. Zien received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Thermal Engineering from Cornell University, and a Master of Science degree in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was editor of the Sloan Management Review. Recent articles written by Mr. Zien include Energy Star Data Center: A Missed Opportunity, published in the November-December 2010 issue of Mission Critical magazine; PUE’s Shortcomings, published in the March-April 2011 issue of Mission Critical magazine; and Liquid Cooled Data Centers Have Finally Arrived, published in the Sep-Oct 2011 issue of BICSI News Magazine.
Participating media are encouraged to pre-schedule an interview with Herb Zien at the HPC User Forum.
About LiquidCool Solutions
LiquidCool Solutions is a technology development firm with patents surrounding cooling electronics by total immersion in a dielectric fluid. LCS technology can be used to cool electronics of any shape and size. For rack-mounted servers the dielectric fluid is pumped from a central station through a manifold mounted on the rack into sealed IT devices, flooding each chassis and slowly flowing over and around the circuit boards and internal components via directed flow as shown in the illustration. Once the coolant exits the enclosure it is circulated outside the datacenter where the heat is captured for commercial reuse or rejected to the atmosphere by a commercially available fluid cooler.
LCS licenses its IP to OEMs looking for a cooling solution that saves energy, saves space, enhances reliability, operates silently, and can be surprisingly easy to maintain in the field. LCS cooling technology has the capacity of dissipating 100 kilowatts per rack at costs far less than alternative technologies.
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