Thursday, 1 February 2007

Hitachi Liquid-Cooling System Headed To HP Workstation

Hitachi has said that it will provide its newly developed Liquid-Cooling System for the latest model of AMD Opteron-based workstations by HP. With the increasing performance of workstations and increasing capacity of memory chips or other components in the workstation, heat...

Hitachi has said that it will provide its newly developed Liquid-Cooling System for the latest model of AMD Opteron-based workstations by HP. With the increasing performance of workstations and increasing capacity of memory chips or other components in the workstation, heat dissipation today is becoming more of an issue. Hitachi developed the Liquid-Cooling System with the aim to reduce heat and noise typically generated in high-performance workstation applications. The new system, will be used in the high-end HP xw9400 Workstation, as per a statement issued by the company.

"We are assured that the HP xw9400 Workstation with Hitachi’s Liquid-Cooling System will provide end users with a quiet and comfortable environment. Working with HP is the tip of the iceberg, and we anticipate that other workstation manufacturers will follow suit", said Hideaki Gemma, general manager, IT Thermal Solution Center for Hitachi.

According to the company, Hitachi’s Liquid-Cooling System provides an acoustic improvement for idle and CPU max load states, as well as a lower pitch tone that blends into background noise. This is made possible by the removal of the CPU heat sink fans and by implementing a higher air flow (low speed) chassis fan for liquid-cooling, utilising high heat transfer capacity of the liquid.