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Improved Efficiency & Reliability for
Data Center Servers Using Immersion
Oil Cooling
Cheryl Tulkoff & Chris Boyd
ctulkoff@dfrsolutions.com
clb@midasnetworks.com
May 2013 Las Vegas, Nevada
• Immersion Oil Cooling Technology Overview
• Data Center Efficiency
• Cost & Size Benefits
• Technology Challenges
• Reliability Enhancements
• Summary
• Challenges & Next Steps
Agenda
• Not a new concept!
– Direct liquid immersion
cooling has been used within
IBM for over 20 years to cool
high powered chips on multi-
chip substrates during
electrical testing prior to final
module assembly.
– Early supercomputers relied
on liquid cooling technologies.
• Cray 2 supercomputer
Liquid Immersion Cooling
http://www.electronics-cooling.com/1996/05/direct-liquid-immersion-cooling-for-
high-power-density-microelectronics/
• Liquid Submersion Blade Server
– LiquidCool Solutions (Hardcore
Computer) Supports High
Frequency Trading with Liquid
Submersion Cooled Computers
• Released in 2010
– 2012: LSS is the world’s first rack-
mounted total liquid submerged
server. The system’s patented
liquid submersion cooling
technology promises
improvements in speed,
performance, reliability and
latency, while reducing
environmental impact.
Liquid Immersion Cooling Example
http://www.liquidcoolsolutions.com/
Cooling Using Dielectric Oil
1200X more
effective at
removing
heat than
air
Oil costs ~$500 per 55 gallon barrel, ~35C
Tanks, Not Racks
Tanks can
dissipate
40kW of
power or
more
Business Value of Immersion Technology
• Greatly reduced capital and operating
expense vs. conventional data centers
• Data center can be built in non-traditional
facilities, including transportable “pods”
– No need for air conditioning, raised floors or
chemical fire suppression
• No impact on software or network
infrastructure
– Retraining of support personnel not required
• A truly “green” solution
• Reliability Enhancements
Will redefine
how data
centers and
servers will
be built in
the future
Typical Data Center Operating Costs
Profile
8%
13%
18%
4%
57%
Networking
Equipment
Power
Power Distribution
& Cooling
Other
Infrastructure
Servers
Power costs
represent
25-40%
of monthly
operating
expenses
3 yr. Server; 10 yr. Infrastructure Amortization
Power Usage Efficiency (PUE)
PUE =
Total Facility Power
IT Load
Total
Facility
Power
Power
• Switchgear
• UPS
• Battery Backup
• Lighting
• Etc.
Cooling
• Chillers
• CRACs
• Etc.
IT Load
• Servers
• Switches
• Storage
• Etc.
Any energy
expended
other than
that to drive
the IT Load
contributes to
inefficiency
Industry PUE Profile
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
1-1.39 1.4-1.69 1.7-1.9 2.0-2.9 3.0-3.9 4.0 + Don't
Know
n=300
Source: Digital Realty Trust 2012 Survey
%
Immersion Oil
Cooling
PUE ≤ 1.08
Average PUE:
•Per Uptime
Institute: 1.8
•Per EPA
Energy Star
Program: 1.91
Huge Energy and Cost Savings
Fan-less,
ultra-
efficient
data center
Traditional Data Center vs. Immersion Cooled Data Center
Identical Processing Capacity Comparison
(10,000 servers)
Traditional
Data Center*
Immersion Oil
Cooling Data Center
Data Center
Size (sq. ft.)
Power
Consumption
(MW)
12,500
6.88
4,000
3.12
32%
45%
Of the Size
Of the Power
*Assumes PUE of 1.8 and Dell PowerEdge R520 servers
Traditional Data Center vs. Immersion Cooled Data Center
*Assumes PUE of 1.8 and Dell PowerEdge R520 servers
Identical Power Comparison (5 MW)
Traditional
Data Center*
Immersion Oil Cooling
Data Center
Number of
Servers
16,030
6,430
7,275
9,100
120%
71%
More
Processing Capacity
Of the Size
Data Center
Size (sq. ft.)
• Simpler than typical air cooling system
• Improvements in the instrumentation and
reporting in progress
Oil Cooling System Components Schematic
Preparation: Works With Any OEM Server
Prep takes less
than
10 minutes
Remove fans
Replace thermal paste
Use sealed or
solid-state drives
Server Maintenance
• If you do get thermal paste into the system, it can be easily
filtered by temporarily replacing the catch screen in the pump
module with a 2 um filter.
– The thermal paste dissolves in the oil, making it cloudy.
• How do you work on a server in immersion oil cooling?
– Pull the server out, wait for it to drain
– Keep a paper towel nearby
– Potential need to clean if returned to a repair center
Optimized Loading Design
• The SLED: custom server design takes optimal
advantage of the cooling technology
– Based on experience gained from more than 18 months of
experience operating an immersion cooled data center
• Skepticism from OEMs
– This is changing--Intel's recent positive report
– SuperMicro Computer is developing SKUs for immersion boards
• http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/03/22/submerged-
supermicro-servers-accelerated-by-gpus/
– Network gear manufacturers are lagging behind server vendors
• Disk Arrays
– Current hard disks leak, and the oil crashes the heads
– Solid State Drives (SSDs) are expensive
– Waiting to test the new Western Digital helium filled drives when
they ship next year, hermetically sealed
• http://www.hgst.com/press-room/2012/hgst-announces-radically-new-
helium-filled-hard-disk-drive-platform
Some Immersion Technology Challenges
• Proving technology
• Impact on optical
components
– TTCP transfer times and
ping times are very similar
crossing the switch
network, regardless of
whether the optical
interfaces are immersed
– In all cases, no pings were
lost
• Coolant immersion does not
appear to adversely affect
the error rate on the links.
Immersion Technology Challenges
• Impact on RF
components?
• Performance
Impacts?
– None detected yet
– Trials underway
– Image of Ethernet
switch which has
been running
immersed since
January 2011
Immersion Technology Challenges
Potential Reliability Enhancements
Minimizes
Common
Operational
Issues like:
•Overheating
•Temperature
swings
•Server fan
failures
•Dust
•Air quality
•Corrosion
•Whiskers
• Tin Whisker Mitigation
– Arcing
• Zinc Whisker Mitigation
• Reduction in Corrosion & Electrochemical
Migration
– Corrosive exposure reduction
– Moisture reduction
• Environmental contaminant reduction
– Dust, debris, particulates
• More stable and even thermal environment
– No hot spots
Reliability Enhancements
Tin Whiskers
 Tin whiskers are hair-like single crystal metallic
filaments that grow from tin films.
 Their unpredictability is the greatest concern.
 The Aerospace and Defense industries consider tin
whiskers the, “greatest reliability risk associated with
Pb-free electronics”.
 Manhattan project phase 2 report
What are the potential failure modes?
 Direct Contact
 Causes an electrical short (arcing)
 Requires growth of sufficient length and
in the correct orientation
 Electromagnetic (EM) Radiation
 Emits or receives EM signal and noise at
higher frequencies
 Deterioration of signal for frequencies
above 6 GHz independent of whisker
length
 Debris
 Whisker breaks off and shorts two leads
(primarily during handling)
 These can be mitigated by immersion
oil
Courtesy of P. Bush, SUNY Buffalo
Observation of tin whisker debris as
reported to NASA from Sanmina-SC
DfR Solutions
Response to Tin Whisker Risk
 Biggest challenges are high reliability
applications with high volumes and strong
cost pressures
 Examples: Enterprise servers, external
defibrillators, first-responder radios, industrial
process monitoring, etc.
 Every mitigation must be looked at closely in
regards to need and cost
 Requires a clear understanding of why and when
tin whiskers occur
• “If you manage a data center, especially one that sits on
a raised floor, zinc whiskers might eventually have an
impact on your operations.”
• “The whisker formation process consists of an
unpredictable incubation period—typically lasting
months or even years without any growth at all—
followed by a period of growth at rates as high as 1
mm/year.”
• “Unfortunately, accelerated techniques do not currently
exist to predict if, when, and to what extent a zinc-
coated surface will produce zinc whiskers.”
– Excerpts from paper by Jay Brusse and Michael Sampson
Zinc Whiskers: Hidden Cause of Equipment
Failure
Zinc Whiskers
Zinc whiskers (here, magnified100×) growing on the underside of a
raised-access floor tile. Image courtesy of Jay Brusse et al
• Failure mechanism appears to be
quite widespread
• Awareness by facility or data
center management personnel
appears to be limited
Why Worry about Contamination and Cleanliness?
• Believed to be one of the primary drivers of field issues in
electronics today
– Induces corrosion and metal migration
(electrochemical migration – ECM)
• Intermittent behavior lends itself to
no-fault-found (NFF) returns
– Driven by self-healing behavior
– Difficult to diagnosis
• Pervasive
– Failure modes observed on batteries, LCDs, PCBAs, wiring,
switches, etc.
• Will continue to get worse
Future of Contamination / Cleanliness Issues
• Continued reductions in pitch between conductors will make
future packaging more susceptible
• Increased use of leadless packages (QFN, land grid array, etc.)
results in reduction in standoff
– Will reduce efficiency of cleaning, which may lead to increased
concentration of contaminants
• Increased product sales into countries with polluted and tropical
environments (East Asia, South Asia, etc.)
– ECM occurrence very sensitive to ambient humidity conditions
• Pb-Free and smaller bond pads
– Require more aggressive flux formulations
What is ECM?
• One definition
– Movement of metal through an electrolytic solution under
an applied electric field between insulated conductors
• Electrochemical migration (ECM) can occur on or in
almost all electronic packaging
– Die surface
– Epoxy encapsulant
– Printed board
– Passive components
– Etc.
• Temperature
• Moisture
• Contamination
• Voltage/Electrical Field
• Temperature, moisture, and contamination
aspects can all be reduced and/or
eliminated with immersion oil cooling
ECM Drivers
Sources of Contaminants
• Printed board fabrication process
– Insufficiently cured polymers
– Rinse water
• Printed board assembly processes
– Fluxes
– Handling
• Salts from human contact (KCl and NaCl)
• Storage and use environment
Contaminants: Storage & Environment
• Storage
– Cleaning chemicals
– Outgassing
– Polymeric materials
• Use Environment
– Dust, Debris, Zinc whiskers
– Moisture, Evaporated sea water
– Industrial pollutants – sulfur, etc.
• Filtered oil prevents these from accumulating
on electronics
Influence of Pollutants: Creepage Corrosion
• Recent field issues with printed circuit
boards (PCBs) plated with immersion silver
– Sulfur-based creepage corrosion
• Failures in customer locations with elevated
levels of sulfur-based gases
– Rubber manufacturing
– Sewage/waste-water treatment plants
– Vehicle exhaust fumes (exit / entrance
ramps)
– Petroleum refineries
– Coal-generation power plants
– Paper mills
– Landfills
– Large-scale farms
– Automotive modeling studios
– Swamps
• Immersion oil would prevent this
exposure!
P. Mazurkiewicz , ISTFA 2006
35
Creepage Corrosion Failure of ImAg
•Corrosion product is semi-conductive (resistance of about 1Mohm).
•Resistance decreases as humidity increases.
•Traces sensitive to leakage current trigger the system failure.
•Visual inspection required to identify failures (most are CNDs).
Initiation of
a short
Pollutants: Not Always in Industrial Settings
• Chinese Drywall Cited in Building Woes
– The drywall is emitting sulfur-based gases that are corroding air-
conditioner coils, computer wiring and metal picture frames.
• Drywall blamed for A.C. failures
– Air-conditioning coils have turned black, along with wiring, piping
and even silver jewelry.
– "We have definitely identified that a combination of sulfide gases
are the cause of the corrosion," said Robert P. DeMott, managing
principal of Environ.
– "Foul odors reported by people living in the homes may also be
caused by the combination of sulfur gases being released from the
drywall,
• Chinese drywall class action lawsuit
– LEE COUNTY, Fla. - The Lawsuit was filed against Knauf Plasterboard
Tianjin Co., LTD, The Knauf Group, Rothchilt International Limited
and the Banner Supply Company.
– Known as "Chinese Drywall", it was manufactured oversees and
was made from waste materials. As a result, it emits sulfur
compounds that corrode copper wiring and other metals found in
homes. Copper Corroded by Sulfur flumes
Drywall Sulfur Fumes Blamed for A.C. & Electrical Equipment failures
Infra-Red Thermal Evaluation
D11
Alum Caps
Q16
Thermal Anomalies Detected
- Q16 producing heat when is it supposed to
be in an off state - sneak circuit detected
- D11 detected a hot spot that exceeded
thermal limit
Expect to see hot spot reduction and improved
thermal uniformity using immersion oil cooling
Reliability
Engineer
Qual
Engineer
Test
Engineer
Mechanical
Engineer
Thermal
Engineer
Software Reliability Modeling & Prediction Tool
How Hot it Too
Hot?
• PCB Design
• Temp Cycling
• Vibration
• Shock
• Bending
• In Circuit
Test
• DFMEA
• Thermal
Derating
• Failure Rate
Thermal Modeling &
Prediction
• Create Thermal
Environment for a
typical, air-cooled
data center
• Create 2nd
environment for
immersion oil
cooled data center
• Compare
• Correlate to longer
term actual data
Thermal Modeling & Prediction Life Curves
Can do what if scenarios changing lifetime,
acceptable failure rate, and thermal
environment
Produces a
Failure Rate
EM
HCI
NBTI
TDDB
EM
HCI
NBTI
TDDB
EM
HCI
NBTI
TDDB
Acceleration Factors
Analysis of
Functional
Groups
Functional Group A Functional Group B Functional Group i
Simulated Device
Deconstruction
Device
Properties
Manufacturer
Testing
Functional Group A Functional Group B Functional Group i
Device
Accelerated
Failure Rate
o Models the simultaneous
degradation behaviors of
multiple failure mechanisms on
integrated circuit devices
o Devised from published research
literature, technological
publications, and accepted
degradation models from:
o NASAJPL
o University of Maryland
o Semiconductor Reliability
Community
o Easy to use software solution by
multiple engineering disciplines
ICs – Lifetime Prediction & Impact of Temperature
• Intel tests oil immersion to cool servers
– “If you are going to add a significant amount of capacity
and have systems with a lot of density and don’t have
good air flow in your data center, this is worth looking
at,” said Mike Patterson, a senior thermal architect for
data centers at Intel.
– “We asked a lot of tough questions and they had pretty
good answers for all of them so we put a pilot together,”
said Patterson. “There’s almost an emotional reaction
[against oil immersion] at first, so people say they would
never do that, but when they see the potential [energy]
savings, they see there’s something there,” he said.
Industry Evaluation – Intel Experience
• Intel plans to start developing motherboards
optimized for immersion cooling.
• Various OEMs involved in server hardware are
expected to create modified designs with oil
immersion in mind as well.
• Intel also found that no computer components
— processors, hard drives etc. – were
damaged from the yearlong immersion in
mineral oil.
Industry Evaluation – Intel Experience
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/cooling-a-computer-server-
with-mineral-oil/
Has what it thinks is the
best of both worlds:
putting the whole server
"blade" (the individual
hardware component of
a server "farm") inside a
container full of a special
liquid called Novec.
Industry Evaluations – Iceotope
http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/new-way-keep-pcs-
cool-submerge-them-goo-1C8603909
Technology Summary
• Immersion cooling technology has been used previously in
the computing and electric power industries
• More than 600,000 hours of server time logged by
customers including one of the largest grocery chains in
Texas and Texas Multicore
• Virtually unlimited heat density and scalability
• Using highly effective enviro-friendly fluid for cooling
greatly improves server reliability
• Will be vital for “hot” CPUs currently in development
• Dramatically reduced carbon footprint
• Immersion oil cooling offers significant
environmental, cost, performance, and
reliability advantages.
– Reduces potential for failure in:
• Tin Whisker Mitigation via arcing
• Zinc Whisker Mitigation
• Corrosion & Electrochemical Migration (ECM)
• Moisture reduction
• Environmental contaminant reduction
• Provides stable and even thermal environment
Technology Summary
• Oil bath monitoring
– Water (primarily initial equipment insertion)
– Contaminants (over time, leaching out from
cables, plastics, etc).
– Cleaning of assemblies if offsite repair required
Future Work – Questions & Challenges
• Optimum oil temperature – how was it determined (35C)
and how low can it go?
• Does the oil affect the contact resistance of connectors,
relay contacts, or other electro-mechanical interconnects
over time? That is, does the oil penetrate the metal-to-
metal interface and create an insulating layer?
• Test specifically to show that electrolytic capacitors are not
affected over the long term by immersion. They are not
hermetic and they use ethylene glycol as the main solvent
with adipic acid as the main charge carrier. These may
slightly dissolve in the oil
Future Work – Questions &
Challenges
• Extra performance
– Oil immersion may enable over-clocking of processors in ways not possible with air cooling
• Humidity barrier
– Oil immersion might be a good solution for small businesses in humid regions of the world
such as southeast Asia. With the oil, they could build their data center in a warehouse with a
concrete floor and not need all of the traditional chiller or HVAC equipment
• NEBS and telecom applications
– Oil immersion can significantly extend ride through time in the event of a cooling system
failure.
– Could be useful for telecom where uptime and excursion capability is critical.
• Reduces component temperatures
– Helps extend the life of life limited and high temp components such as electrolytic caps, FETs,
and silicon ICs.
Future Work – Questions &
Challenges
• Oil Monitoring & Breakdown
• Cleaning of assemblies if offsite repair
required
Future Work – Questions &
Challenges
• Use a high humidity environment –
– Choose a couple of servers and place them in oil (experiment cell) and place a couple of servers in air
(control cell).
– Place both the oil immersion tank and the air servers in the same high humidity atmosphere.
– Something like 30 or 35C and 80% RH.
– Review climate of some of the humidity capitols of the world like Mumbai, Delhi, Singapore, Shanghai,
Kuala Lumpur, etc. and design a test that is accelerated relative to them.
• Use thermocouples to show how oil immersion reduces temps of high temp components
– calculations to show improved life, lower failure rate of key components such as silicon ICs, FETs,
electrolytic caps
• Do over-clocking analysis on the processor
– if oil keeps the processor much cooler, could you trade off processor life for performance, i.e. over-
clocking?
– If the processor temp is kept low in oil, you should be able to over-clock and get more performance for
the same expected lifetime, e.g. 5-7 years.
• Ride through
– cut off the oil cooling system and study the ride-through time.
– Compare ride through time of oil (at least 30 min to 1 hour) to the ride through time for an air cooled
data center (couple of minutes).
Potential Experiment Conditions
Speaker Biography
 Cheryl Tulkoff has over 22 years of experience in electronics manufacturing with an
emphasis on failure analysis and reliability. She has worked throughout the electronics
manufacturing life cycle beginning with semiconductor fabrication processes, into printed
circuit board fabrication and assembly, through functional and reliability testing, and
culminating in the analysis and evaluation of field returns. She has also managed no clean
and RoHS-compliant conversion programs and has developed and managed comprehensive
reliability programs.
 Cheryl earned her Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech. She is a
published author, experienced public speaker and trainer and a Senior member of both ASQ
and IEEE. She has held leadership positions in the IEEE Central Texas Chapter, IEEE WIE
(Women In Engineering), and IEEE ASTR (Accelerated Stress Testing and Reliability) sections.
She chaired the annual IEEE ASTR workshop for four years, is an ASQ Certified Reliability
Engineer, and a member of SMTA and iMAPS.
 She has a strong passion for pre-college STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math)
outreach and volunteers with several organizations that specialize in encouraging pre-
college students to pursue careers in these fields.
Co-Author Biography
• Chris Boyd, Chief Technology Officer, Midas Green Technology, LLC. Chris Boyd has 20+ years’
experience in the telecommunications industry as a network operator, system engineer, and
technical trainer. He is the co-founder of Midas Green Technology, LLC, a managed hosting provider
which deploys a new server immersion cooling technology for commercial users.
• Chris is a recognized technologist and is a frequently requested consultant for data center, hosting
and telecommunications companies. Chris has extensive experience developing and implementing
leading innovative technology solutions in network management, performance management and
patents for packet telephony routing. Chris is also treasurer of the Electric Frontier Foundation -
Austin, working to ensure the internet remains a “level playing”
• field for the end user.
• Chris received a degree from UT Dallas in May, 1989 with areas of specialization in communication,
computer science, and management.
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References
• “Are Zinc Whiskers Growing in Your Computer Room?” R. Hill, Data Clean Corp.; http://www.dataclean.com/pdf/
zincwhiskers3.pdf.
• “Testing Your Mettle: Zinc Whiskers in the Data Center,”B. Brown, Network World, Nov. 2004,
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/110104widernetwhiskers.html
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429905-001, http://h71033.www7.hp.com/TechPubs/PDF/Power_Requirements/TPSEC05.pdf.
• “What Nasty Little Things Are Lurking Inside Your Data Center?” S. Tucker, Unisys World Monthly, Nov. 2002;
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• “Zinc Whisker Contamination: A Paper on the Effect and Abatement of Zinc Whiskers in Data Processing Centers,”
D. Loman, HP Services; http://www.dataclean.com/pdf/ZincWhiskerWhitePaper.pdf.
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• http://www.layerzero.com/Innovations/stainless_steel_hardware.html (Data Center & Zinc whisker mitigation)
Zinc Whisker References
Contact Information
 Questions?
 Contact Cheryl Tulkoff,
ctulkoff@dfrsolutions.com,
512-913-8624
 www.dfrsolutions.com
 Connect with me in LinkedIn as well!
 See the server dunking videos at
http://www.midasgreentech.com/svlg/

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Improved Efficiency & Reliability for Data Center Servers Using Immersion Oil Cooling

  • 1. Improved Efficiency & Reliability for Data Center Servers Using Immersion Oil Cooling Cheryl Tulkoff & Chris Boyd ctulkoff@dfrsolutions.com clb@midasnetworks.com May 2013 Las Vegas, Nevada
  • 2. • Immersion Oil Cooling Technology Overview • Data Center Efficiency • Cost & Size Benefits • Technology Challenges • Reliability Enhancements • Summary • Challenges & Next Steps Agenda
  • 3. • Not a new concept! – Direct liquid immersion cooling has been used within IBM for over 20 years to cool high powered chips on multi- chip substrates during electrical testing prior to final module assembly. – Early supercomputers relied on liquid cooling technologies. • Cray 2 supercomputer Liquid Immersion Cooling http://www.electronics-cooling.com/1996/05/direct-liquid-immersion-cooling-for- high-power-density-microelectronics/
  • 4. • Liquid Submersion Blade Server – LiquidCool Solutions (Hardcore Computer) Supports High Frequency Trading with Liquid Submersion Cooled Computers • Released in 2010 – 2012: LSS is the world’s first rack- mounted total liquid submerged server. The system’s patented liquid submersion cooling technology promises improvements in speed, performance, reliability and latency, while reducing environmental impact. Liquid Immersion Cooling Example http://www.liquidcoolsolutions.com/
  • 5. Cooling Using Dielectric Oil 1200X more effective at removing heat than air Oil costs ~$500 per 55 gallon barrel, ~35C
  • 6. Tanks, Not Racks Tanks can dissipate 40kW of power or more
  • 7. Business Value of Immersion Technology • Greatly reduced capital and operating expense vs. conventional data centers • Data center can be built in non-traditional facilities, including transportable “pods” – No need for air conditioning, raised floors or chemical fire suppression • No impact on software or network infrastructure – Retraining of support personnel not required • A truly “green” solution • Reliability Enhancements Will redefine how data centers and servers will be built in the future
  • 8. Typical Data Center Operating Costs Profile 8% 13% 18% 4% 57% Networking Equipment Power Power Distribution & Cooling Other Infrastructure Servers Power costs represent 25-40% of monthly operating expenses 3 yr. Server; 10 yr. Infrastructure Amortization
  • 9. Power Usage Efficiency (PUE) PUE = Total Facility Power IT Load Total Facility Power Power • Switchgear • UPS • Battery Backup • Lighting • Etc. Cooling • Chillers • CRACs • Etc. IT Load • Servers • Switches • Storage • Etc. Any energy expended other than that to drive the IT Load contributes to inefficiency
  • 10. Industry PUE Profile 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 1-1.39 1.4-1.69 1.7-1.9 2.0-2.9 3.0-3.9 4.0 + Don't Know n=300 Source: Digital Realty Trust 2012 Survey % Immersion Oil Cooling PUE ≤ 1.08 Average PUE: •Per Uptime Institute: 1.8 •Per EPA Energy Star Program: 1.91
  • 11. Huge Energy and Cost Savings Fan-less, ultra- efficient data center
  • 12. Traditional Data Center vs. Immersion Cooled Data Center Identical Processing Capacity Comparison (10,000 servers) Traditional Data Center* Immersion Oil Cooling Data Center Data Center Size (sq. ft.) Power Consumption (MW) 12,500 6.88 4,000 3.12 32% 45% Of the Size Of the Power *Assumes PUE of 1.8 and Dell PowerEdge R520 servers
  • 13. Traditional Data Center vs. Immersion Cooled Data Center *Assumes PUE of 1.8 and Dell PowerEdge R520 servers Identical Power Comparison (5 MW) Traditional Data Center* Immersion Oil Cooling Data Center Number of Servers 16,030 6,430 7,275 9,100 120% 71% More Processing Capacity Of the Size Data Center Size (sq. ft.)
  • 14. • Simpler than typical air cooling system • Improvements in the instrumentation and reporting in progress Oil Cooling System Components Schematic
  • 15. Preparation: Works With Any OEM Server Prep takes less than 10 minutes Remove fans Replace thermal paste Use sealed or solid-state drives
  • 16. Server Maintenance • If you do get thermal paste into the system, it can be easily filtered by temporarily replacing the catch screen in the pump module with a 2 um filter. – The thermal paste dissolves in the oil, making it cloudy. • How do you work on a server in immersion oil cooling? – Pull the server out, wait for it to drain – Keep a paper towel nearby – Potential need to clean if returned to a repair center
  • 17. Optimized Loading Design • The SLED: custom server design takes optimal advantage of the cooling technology – Based on experience gained from more than 18 months of experience operating an immersion cooled data center
  • 18. • Skepticism from OEMs – This is changing--Intel's recent positive report – SuperMicro Computer is developing SKUs for immersion boards • http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/03/22/submerged- supermicro-servers-accelerated-by-gpus/ – Network gear manufacturers are lagging behind server vendors • Disk Arrays – Current hard disks leak, and the oil crashes the heads – Solid State Drives (SSDs) are expensive – Waiting to test the new Western Digital helium filled drives when they ship next year, hermetically sealed • http://www.hgst.com/press-room/2012/hgst-announces-radically-new- helium-filled-hard-disk-drive-platform Some Immersion Technology Challenges
  • 19. • Proving technology • Impact on optical components – TTCP transfer times and ping times are very similar crossing the switch network, regardless of whether the optical interfaces are immersed – In all cases, no pings were lost • Coolant immersion does not appear to adversely affect the error rate on the links. Immersion Technology Challenges
  • 20. • Impact on RF components? • Performance Impacts? – None detected yet – Trials underway – Image of Ethernet switch which has been running immersed since January 2011 Immersion Technology Challenges
  • 21. Potential Reliability Enhancements Minimizes Common Operational Issues like: •Overheating •Temperature swings •Server fan failures •Dust •Air quality •Corrosion •Whiskers
  • 22. • Tin Whisker Mitigation – Arcing • Zinc Whisker Mitigation • Reduction in Corrosion & Electrochemical Migration – Corrosive exposure reduction – Moisture reduction • Environmental contaminant reduction – Dust, debris, particulates • More stable and even thermal environment – No hot spots Reliability Enhancements
  • 23. Tin Whiskers  Tin whiskers are hair-like single crystal metallic filaments that grow from tin films.  Their unpredictability is the greatest concern.  The Aerospace and Defense industries consider tin whiskers the, “greatest reliability risk associated with Pb-free electronics”.  Manhattan project phase 2 report
  • 24. What are the potential failure modes?  Direct Contact  Causes an electrical short (arcing)  Requires growth of sufficient length and in the correct orientation  Electromagnetic (EM) Radiation  Emits or receives EM signal and noise at higher frequencies  Deterioration of signal for frequencies above 6 GHz independent of whisker length  Debris  Whisker breaks off and shorts two leads (primarily during handling)  These can be mitigated by immersion oil Courtesy of P. Bush, SUNY Buffalo Observation of tin whisker debris as reported to NASA from Sanmina-SC DfR Solutions
  • 25. Response to Tin Whisker Risk  Biggest challenges are high reliability applications with high volumes and strong cost pressures  Examples: Enterprise servers, external defibrillators, first-responder radios, industrial process monitoring, etc.  Every mitigation must be looked at closely in regards to need and cost  Requires a clear understanding of why and when tin whiskers occur
  • 26. • “If you manage a data center, especially one that sits on a raised floor, zinc whiskers might eventually have an impact on your operations.” • “The whisker formation process consists of an unpredictable incubation period—typically lasting months or even years without any growth at all— followed by a period of growth at rates as high as 1 mm/year.” • “Unfortunately, accelerated techniques do not currently exist to predict if, when, and to what extent a zinc- coated surface will produce zinc whiskers.” – Excerpts from paper by Jay Brusse and Michael Sampson Zinc Whiskers: Hidden Cause of Equipment Failure
  • 27. Zinc Whiskers Zinc whiskers (here, magnified100×) growing on the underside of a raised-access floor tile. Image courtesy of Jay Brusse et al • Failure mechanism appears to be quite widespread • Awareness by facility or data center management personnel appears to be limited
  • 28. Why Worry about Contamination and Cleanliness? • Believed to be one of the primary drivers of field issues in electronics today – Induces corrosion and metal migration (electrochemical migration – ECM) • Intermittent behavior lends itself to no-fault-found (NFF) returns – Driven by self-healing behavior – Difficult to diagnosis • Pervasive – Failure modes observed on batteries, LCDs, PCBAs, wiring, switches, etc. • Will continue to get worse
  • 29. Future of Contamination / Cleanliness Issues • Continued reductions in pitch between conductors will make future packaging more susceptible • Increased use of leadless packages (QFN, land grid array, etc.) results in reduction in standoff – Will reduce efficiency of cleaning, which may lead to increased concentration of contaminants • Increased product sales into countries with polluted and tropical environments (East Asia, South Asia, etc.) – ECM occurrence very sensitive to ambient humidity conditions • Pb-Free and smaller bond pads – Require more aggressive flux formulations
  • 30. What is ECM? • One definition – Movement of metal through an electrolytic solution under an applied electric field between insulated conductors • Electrochemical migration (ECM) can occur on or in almost all electronic packaging – Die surface – Epoxy encapsulant – Printed board – Passive components – Etc.
  • 31. • Temperature • Moisture • Contamination • Voltage/Electrical Field • Temperature, moisture, and contamination aspects can all be reduced and/or eliminated with immersion oil cooling ECM Drivers
  • 32. Sources of Contaminants • Printed board fabrication process – Insufficiently cured polymers – Rinse water • Printed board assembly processes – Fluxes – Handling • Salts from human contact (KCl and NaCl) • Storage and use environment
  • 33. Contaminants: Storage & Environment • Storage – Cleaning chemicals – Outgassing – Polymeric materials • Use Environment – Dust, Debris, Zinc whiskers – Moisture, Evaporated sea water – Industrial pollutants – sulfur, etc. • Filtered oil prevents these from accumulating on electronics
  • 34. Influence of Pollutants: Creepage Corrosion • Recent field issues with printed circuit boards (PCBs) plated with immersion silver – Sulfur-based creepage corrosion • Failures in customer locations with elevated levels of sulfur-based gases – Rubber manufacturing – Sewage/waste-water treatment plants – Vehicle exhaust fumes (exit / entrance ramps) – Petroleum refineries – Coal-generation power plants – Paper mills – Landfills – Large-scale farms – Automotive modeling studios – Swamps • Immersion oil would prevent this exposure! P. Mazurkiewicz , ISTFA 2006
  • 35. 35 Creepage Corrosion Failure of ImAg •Corrosion product is semi-conductive (resistance of about 1Mohm). •Resistance decreases as humidity increases. •Traces sensitive to leakage current trigger the system failure. •Visual inspection required to identify failures (most are CNDs). Initiation of a short
  • 36. Pollutants: Not Always in Industrial Settings • Chinese Drywall Cited in Building Woes – The drywall is emitting sulfur-based gases that are corroding air- conditioner coils, computer wiring and metal picture frames. • Drywall blamed for A.C. failures – Air-conditioning coils have turned black, along with wiring, piping and even silver jewelry. – "We have definitely identified that a combination of sulfide gases are the cause of the corrosion," said Robert P. DeMott, managing principal of Environ. – "Foul odors reported by people living in the homes may also be caused by the combination of sulfur gases being released from the drywall, • Chinese drywall class action lawsuit – LEE COUNTY, Fla. - The Lawsuit was filed against Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin Co., LTD, The Knauf Group, Rothchilt International Limited and the Banner Supply Company. – Known as "Chinese Drywall", it was manufactured oversees and was made from waste materials. As a result, it emits sulfur compounds that corrode copper wiring and other metals found in homes. Copper Corroded by Sulfur flumes Drywall Sulfur Fumes Blamed for A.C. & Electrical Equipment failures
  • 37. Infra-Red Thermal Evaluation D11 Alum Caps Q16 Thermal Anomalies Detected - Q16 producing heat when is it supposed to be in an off state - sneak circuit detected - D11 detected a hot spot that exceeded thermal limit Expect to see hot spot reduction and improved thermal uniformity using immersion oil cooling
  • 38. Reliability Engineer Qual Engineer Test Engineer Mechanical Engineer Thermal Engineer Software Reliability Modeling & Prediction Tool How Hot it Too Hot? • PCB Design • Temp Cycling • Vibration • Shock • Bending • In Circuit Test • DFMEA • Thermal Derating • Failure Rate
  • 39. Thermal Modeling & Prediction • Create Thermal Environment for a typical, air-cooled data center • Create 2nd environment for immersion oil cooled data center • Compare • Correlate to longer term actual data
  • 40. Thermal Modeling & Prediction Life Curves Can do what if scenarios changing lifetime, acceptable failure rate, and thermal environment
  • 41. Produces a Failure Rate EM HCI NBTI TDDB EM HCI NBTI TDDB EM HCI NBTI TDDB Acceleration Factors Analysis of Functional Groups Functional Group A Functional Group B Functional Group i Simulated Device Deconstruction Device Properties Manufacturer Testing Functional Group A Functional Group B Functional Group i Device Accelerated Failure Rate o Models the simultaneous degradation behaviors of multiple failure mechanisms on integrated circuit devices o Devised from published research literature, technological publications, and accepted degradation models from: o NASAJPL o University of Maryland o Semiconductor Reliability Community o Easy to use software solution by multiple engineering disciplines ICs – Lifetime Prediction & Impact of Temperature
  • 42. • Intel tests oil immersion to cool servers – “If you are going to add a significant amount of capacity and have systems with a lot of density and don’t have good air flow in your data center, this is worth looking at,” said Mike Patterson, a senior thermal architect for data centers at Intel. – “We asked a lot of tough questions and they had pretty good answers for all of them so we put a pilot together,” said Patterson. “There’s almost an emotional reaction [against oil immersion] at first, so people say they would never do that, but when they see the potential [energy] savings, they see there’s something there,” he said. Industry Evaluation – Intel Experience
  • 43. • Intel plans to start developing motherboards optimized for immersion cooling. • Various OEMs involved in server hardware are expected to create modified designs with oil immersion in mind as well. • Intel also found that no computer components — processors, hard drives etc. – were damaged from the yearlong immersion in mineral oil. Industry Evaluation – Intel Experience http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/06/cooling-a-computer-server- with-mineral-oil/
  • 44. Has what it thinks is the best of both worlds: putting the whole server "blade" (the individual hardware component of a server "farm") inside a container full of a special liquid called Novec. Industry Evaluations – Iceotope http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/futureoftech/new-way-keep-pcs- cool-submerge-them-goo-1C8603909
  • 45. Technology Summary • Immersion cooling technology has been used previously in the computing and electric power industries • More than 600,000 hours of server time logged by customers including one of the largest grocery chains in Texas and Texas Multicore • Virtually unlimited heat density and scalability • Using highly effective enviro-friendly fluid for cooling greatly improves server reliability • Will be vital for “hot” CPUs currently in development • Dramatically reduced carbon footprint
  • 46. • Immersion oil cooling offers significant environmental, cost, performance, and reliability advantages. – Reduces potential for failure in: • Tin Whisker Mitigation via arcing • Zinc Whisker Mitigation • Corrosion & Electrochemical Migration (ECM) • Moisture reduction • Environmental contaminant reduction • Provides stable and even thermal environment Technology Summary
  • 47. • Oil bath monitoring – Water (primarily initial equipment insertion) – Contaminants (over time, leaching out from cables, plastics, etc). – Cleaning of assemblies if offsite repair required Future Work – Questions & Challenges
  • 48. • Optimum oil temperature – how was it determined (35C) and how low can it go? • Does the oil affect the contact resistance of connectors, relay contacts, or other electro-mechanical interconnects over time? That is, does the oil penetrate the metal-to- metal interface and create an insulating layer? • Test specifically to show that electrolytic capacitors are not affected over the long term by immersion. They are not hermetic and they use ethylene glycol as the main solvent with adipic acid as the main charge carrier. These may slightly dissolve in the oil Future Work – Questions & Challenges
  • 49. • Extra performance – Oil immersion may enable over-clocking of processors in ways not possible with air cooling • Humidity barrier – Oil immersion might be a good solution for small businesses in humid regions of the world such as southeast Asia. With the oil, they could build their data center in a warehouse with a concrete floor and not need all of the traditional chiller or HVAC equipment • NEBS and telecom applications – Oil immersion can significantly extend ride through time in the event of a cooling system failure. – Could be useful for telecom where uptime and excursion capability is critical. • Reduces component temperatures – Helps extend the life of life limited and high temp components such as electrolytic caps, FETs, and silicon ICs. Future Work – Questions & Challenges
  • 50. • Oil Monitoring & Breakdown • Cleaning of assemblies if offsite repair required Future Work – Questions & Challenges
  • 51. • Use a high humidity environment – – Choose a couple of servers and place them in oil (experiment cell) and place a couple of servers in air (control cell). – Place both the oil immersion tank and the air servers in the same high humidity atmosphere. – Something like 30 or 35C and 80% RH. – Review climate of some of the humidity capitols of the world like Mumbai, Delhi, Singapore, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur, etc. and design a test that is accelerated relative to them. • Use thermocouples to show how oil immersion reduces temps of high temp components – calculations to show improved life, lower failure rate of key components such as silicon ICs, FETs, electrolytic caps • Do over-clocking analysis on the processor – if oil keeps the processor much cooler, could you trade off processor life for performance, i.e. over- clocking? – If the processor temp is kept low in oil, you should be able to over-clock and get more performance for the same expected lifetime, e.g. 5-7 years. • Ride through – cut off the oil cooling system and study the ride-through time. – Compare ride through time of oil (at least 30 min to 1 hour) to the ride through time for an air cooled data center (couple of minutes). Potential Experiment Conditions
  • 52. Speaker Biography  Cheryl Tulkoff has over 22 years of experience in electronics manufacturing with an emphasis on failure analysis and reliability. She has worked throughout the electronics manufacturing life cycle beginning with semiconductor fabrication processes, into printed circuit board fabrication and assembly, through functional and reliability testing, and culminating in the analysis and evaluation of field returns. She has also managed no clean and RoHS-compliant conversion programs and has developed and managed comprehensive reliability programs.  Cheryl earned her Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech. She is a published author, experienced public speaker and trainer and a Senior member of both ASQ and IEEE. She has held leadership positions in the IEEE Central Texas Chapter, IEEE WIE (Women In Engineering), and IEEE ASTR (Accelerated Stress Testing and Reliability) sections. She chaired the annual IEEE ASTR workshop for four years, is an ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer, and a member of SMTA and iMAPS.  She has a strong passion for pre-college STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) outreach and volunteers with several organizations that specialize in encouraging pre- college students to pursue careers in these fields.
  • 53. Co-Author Biography • Chris Boyd, Chief Technology Officer, Midas Green Technology, LLC. Chris Boyd has 20+ years’ experience in the telecommunications industry as a network operator, system engineer, and technical trainer. He is the co-founder of Midas Green Technology, LLC, a managed hosting provider which deploys a new server immersion cooling technology for commercial users. • Chris is a recognized technologist and is a frequently requested consultant for data center, hosting and telecommunications companies. Chris has extensive experience developing and implementing leading innovative technology solutions in network management, performance management and patents for packet telephony routing. Chris is also treasurer of the Electric Frontier Foundation - Austin, working to ensure the internet remains a “level playing” • field for the end user. • Chris received a degree from UT Dallas in May, 1989 with areas of specialization in communication, computer science, and management.
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  • 56. Contact Information  Questions?  Contact Cheryl Tulkoff, ctulkoff@dfrsolutions.com, 512-913-8624  www.dfrsolutions.com  Connect with me in LinkedIn as well!  See the server dunking videos at http://www.midasgreentech.com/svlg/