Cooling Computers with Tiny Jet Engines @ Technology Review

Vikingod · Jun 18, 2006, 02:55 PM

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The computer servers that fill huge data centers are producing more heat with every new generation of processors. It's a problem that's sending engineers on a search for cooling fans that are both small enough to fit inside ever-smaller server chassis and powerful enough to dispel increasing amounts of heat. At Hewlett-Packard, they've found one answer in an unexpected place: model jet airplanes.

To cool its next generation of commercial servers, the company is using electric-ducted fans (EDFs), originally developed by model airplane hobbyists to power radio-controlled jets. Essentially propellers in a box, the fans run so fast and produce so much air pressure that they should be able to provide the cooling needs for the next several generations of HP servers, according to Wade Vinson, an engineer in the company's Industry Standard Server Group.

BWX · Jun 19, 2006, 04:20 AM

That's pretty cool and everything.. but damn, jet engines are very loud! Can't imagine this in a home PC unless there was some kind of elaborate muffler or silencer...

CDsDontBurn · Jun 19, 2006, 06:15 AM

don't they already have them for PC? i'm looking to find one....i'll come back and edit my post once i do find it.......i know i've seen them. seen them in person.

BWX · Jun 19, 2006, 06:38 AM

yeah I remember that review - whoever made them had 2 models. They were just fans shaped like a jet I thought.... Maybe Gigabyte made it? I can't remember who, but I do remember them.

I believe the review said they were noisy, and not very efficient.

CDsDontBurn · Jun 19, 2006, 06:54 AM

ok....cool.....cuz after looking through all of both FrozenCPU's fan section of their website, and newegg's section for the fan.....i never found it

BWX · Jun 19, 2006, 07:26 AM

I seached for "cpu jet" and found it.. There are a bunch of reviews and whatnot..

http://www.directron.com/acbv83.html

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...J:en&q=CPU+jet

CDsDontBurn · Jun 19, 2006, 07:28 AM

yea....that be the one

LeanWolf · Jun 19, 2006, 11:33 AM

well they call them tiny 'jet engines' but they're not really like jet engines are they.

Jun 18, 2006, 02:55 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	Cooling Computers with Tiny Jet Engines @ Technology Review Source: Technology Review __________ The computer servers that fill huge data centers are producing more heat with every new generation of processors. It's a problem that's sending engineers on a search for cooling fans that are both small enough to fit inside ever-smaller server chassis and powerful enough to dispel increasing amounts of heat. At Hewlett-Packard, they've found one answer in an unexpected place: model jet airplanes. To cool its next generation of commercial servers, the company is using electric-ducted fans (EDFs), originally developed by model airplane hobbyists to power radio-controlled jets. Essentially propellers in a box, the fans run so fast and produce so much air pressure that they should be able to provide the cooling needs for the next several generations of HP servers, according to Wade Vinson, an engineer in the company's Industry Standard Server Group.

Jun 19, 2006, 04:20 AM	#2
BWX unplugged Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: USNY Posts: 19,669 Rep Power: 110 System Specs	That's pretty cool and everything.. but damn, jet engines are very loud! Can't imagine this in a home PC unless there was some kind of elaborate muffler or silencer... __________________

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CDsDontBurn Lurking DriverHeaven Join Date: May 2003 Location: Southern California Posts: 22,795 Rep Power: 235 System Specs	don't they already have them for PC? i'm looking to find one....i'll come back and edit my post once i do find it.......i know i've seen them. seen them in person. __________________ Her First Day \| A year later

Jun 19, 2006, 06:38 AM	#4
BWX unplugged Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: USNY Posts: 19,669 Rep Power: 110 System Specs	yeah I remember that review - whoever made them had 2 models. They were just fans shaped like a jet I thought.... Maybe Gigabyte made it? I can't remember who, but I do remember them. I believe the review said they were noisy, and not very efficient. __________________

Jun 19, 2006, 06:54 AM	#5
CDsDontBurn Lurking DriverHeaven Join Date: May 2003 Location: Southern California Posts: 22,795 Rep Power: 235 System Specs	ok....cool.....cuz after looking through all of both FrozenCPU's fan section of their website, and newegg's section for the fan.....i never found it __________________ Her First Day \| A year later

Jun 19, 2006, 07:26 AM	#6
BWX unplugged Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: USNY Posts: 19,669 Rep Power: 110 System Specs	I seached for "cpu jet" and found it.. There are a bunch of reviews and whatnot.. http://www.directron.com/acbv83.html http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...J:en&q=CPU+jet __________________

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CDsDontBurn Lurking DriverHeaven Join Date: May 2003 Location: Southern California Posts: 22,795 Rep Power: 235 System Specs	yea....that be the one __________________ Her First Day \| A year later

Jun 19, 2006, 11:33 AM	#8
LeanWolf alpha male Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Skyrim Posts: 5,713 Rep Power: 84 System Specs	well they call them tiny 'jet engines' but they're not really like jet engines are they. __________________