Controlled warm air capture

Abstract

A system for providing ventilation to rack-mounted computers includes a plurality of rack-mounted computers on a plurality of motherboards each having a front end near a work space and a back end, a plurality of fans mounted near the back end of each of the plurality of motherboards and adapted to deliver heated air from the computers to a common warm-air plenum, and a plurality of motor controllers coupled to the plurality of fans and adapted to maintain a substantially constant exhaust temperature for each of the fans.

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Technical field [0001] This document relates to systems and methods for providing cooling to areas containing electronic equipment, such as computer server rooms and server racks in computer data centers. Background technique [0002] Computer users usually pay attention to the speed of computer microprocessors (e.g., megahertz and gigahertz). Many people forget that this speed usually comes at a price-higher power consumption. For one or two home PCs, this extra power can be ignored when comparing it with the cost of many other household appliances running in the home. But in data center applications, where thousands of microprocessors can run, power requirements may be very important. [0003] Electricity consumption is actually a double curse. Not only do data center operators have to pay for the electricity used to run many of their computers, they also have to pay for cooling the computers. This is because, according to simple physical theories, all energy must be attributed...

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Heat removal can also be important because while microprocessors may not be as sensitive to heat as humans are, an increase in heat can often multiply errors in microprocessors

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