CoolIT Systems Selected To Cool Poznan Supercomputing & Networking Center

CoolIT Systems Receives Order to Expand Liquid-Cooled Solution at Poznan Supercomputing & Networking Center to 1160 Compute Nodes

CoolIT to enable heat reuse with second PSNC installation in partnership with Huawei and Itprojekt

Calgary, AB. October 29, 2015 CoolIT Systems, the world leader in Direct Contact Liquid Cooling (DCLC) technologies for data center, server and desktop, today announced it has received an order to deliver a second deployment of its Rack DCLC data center liquid cooling solution to the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center (PSNC) in partnership with Huawei and Itprojekt. Building on the success of their existing liquid cooled deployment with CoolIT, PSNC has purchased an additional 17 racks of liquid cooled Huawei servers for a project total of 20 racks. A new feature of this expanded deployment will see the server energy captured in the liquid being re-used for heating buildings on campus, making this installation one of the most efficient HPC clusters in EMEA.

The PSNC cluster expansion combines Huawei blade servers in the E9000 chassis with CoolIT Systems Rack DCLC liquid cooling system to manage over 80% of the server heat. The system will be powered by two Rack DCLC CHx650 centralized pumping/heat exchange units to provide liquid cooling to the processor, RAM and VRM components. Using inlet water temperatures of 40C and above allows CoolITs system to access free air cooling during warm weather periods when supplying heat for buildings is not required. All 1160 compute nodes will be hot-swappable using all metal, dry-break quick connects.

Last summer we had a long period of 40C weather and our AC cooling system went nuts. It was very difficult to keep the air-cooled racks running under those conditions, said Radoslaw Januszewski, IT Specialist at PSNC. The liquid cooled racks were the only ones that continued to operate effectively, so it proves we made the right decision to go with CoolIT Systems and their reliable technology.

Located at the Institute of Bio-organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, PSNC is a premier center for HPC in Poland and is the national leader in implementing innovative technologies for the national scientific network.

The new liquid cooled PSNC cluster will be installed in December 2015.

About CoolIT Systems, Inc.
CoolIT Systems Inc. is a world leader in Direct Contact Liquid Cooling (DCLC) for the Data Center, Server and Desktop markets. As an experienced innovator with 50 patents and more than 2 million liquid cooling units deployed, CoolIT brings a wealth of design, engineering, and manufacturing knowledge to the table. CoolIT’s Rack DCLC platform is a modular, rack-based, advanced cooling solution that allows for dramatic increases in rack densities, component performance, and power efficiencies. The technology can be deployed with any server and in any rack making it a truly flexible solution that allows for an edge in today’s highly competitive marketplace.

About Poznan Supercomputing and Network Center (PSNC or PCSS)
Since 1993 integrating and developing the information infrastructure for science has been the mission of Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center affiliated with the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry at the Polish Academy of Sciences. PSNC is the leader in implementing innovative technologies for the national scientific network POL-34/155/622, at present in the network PIONIER Polish Optical Internet.es.

About Itprojekt
Itprojekt (part of Synergy Group) was founded in 2010 and provides services in areas of IT integration. In contrast to larger IT companies that have been on the market for over 20 years, Itprojekt stands by open standards which change the way we build, operate and maintain IT systems. Itprojekt delivers innovative liquid cooling systems: Direct Liquid Cooling, Full Immersion solutions and open compute server class systems.