Current OpenCompute Immersion project activities and publications

1. Connect. Collaborate. Accelerate.
COOLING
ENVIRONMENT
S
OCP Immersion project
and workstreams
Project Overview
Immersion
Wiki
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2. Connect. Collaborate. Accelerate.
Cooling environments
Cooling Environments
PL: Don Mitchell (Victaulic) & Sean Sivapalan (Meta)
Door Heat Exchangers
Lead: John Fernandez (Meta)
Immersion
Leads: Rolf Brink
(Promersion) & John Bean
(GRC)
Cold Plate
Lead: Jordan Johnson (Intel)
ACF
John Menoche (Vertiv) & John
Gross (J.M. Gross
Engineering)
Heat Reuse
Cosimo Pecchioli (Alfa Laval)
& Jaime Comella (Cloud &
Heat)

3. Connect. Collaborate. Accelerate.
Immersion leadership
Leading the global immersion ecosystem and industry
transition.
Led by Rolf Brink (Promersion) and John Bean (GRC)
Rolf.Brink@ocproject.net
John.Bean@ocproject.net
Call schedule:
Each 3rd Tuesday
7:00-8:00am PT / 9:00-10:00am CT / 16.00-17.00 CET
https://meet.goto.com/186565813

4. Connect. Collaborate. Accelerate.
Design Guidelines for Immersion
Cooled IT equipment
Stimulating the creation of immersion-specific IT hardware.
Led by Rolf Brink (Promersion) and Nigel Gore (Vertiv)
Rolf.Brink@ocproject.net
Completed/Inactive, expected revival in 2023

5. Connect. Collaborate. Accelerate.
Materials and fluids
Fluid chemistry and the reliability of materials exposed to
fluids.
Led by Punith Shivaprasad (Shell) and Peter Cooper (Submer)
Punith.Shivaprasad@ocproject.net
Peter.Cooper@ocproject.net
Call schedule:
Each 2nd and 4th Tuesday
7:00-8:00am PT / 9:00-10:00am CT / 16.00-17.00 CET
https://meet.goto.com/186565813

6. Connect. Collaborate. Accelerate.
Power distribution in Immersion
Developing guidelines and reference designs for increased
power delivery in immersion.
Led by Oriol Chavanel (Submer) and Harry Soin (AEI)
Oriol.Chavanel@ocproject.net
Harry.Soin@ocproject.net
Call schedule:
Each 1st Tuesday:
7:00-8:00am PT / 9:00-10:00am CT / 16.00-17.00 CET
https://meet.goto.com/135278685

7. Connect. Collaborate. Accelerate.
Hardware Management for Liquid
Cooling
Creating a full liquid cooling schema for Redfish, a Datacentre
Infrastructure Management (DCIM) environment, for
harmonized management of liquid cooling technologies in the
industry.
Led by Mick Jones (Vertiv)
Mick.Jones@ocproject.net
Call schedule:
Each 1st and 3rd Wednesday
8:00-9:00am PT / 10:00-11:00am CT / 17.00-18.00 CET
https://meet.goto.com/711534141

8. Connect. Collaborate. Accelerate.
Immersion Hurdles
Identifying and addressing challenges and risks. This
community creates base collateral that serves as the
foundation for new workstreams incubated within the project.
Led by David Gyulnazaryan (independent) and Raul Alvarez
(independent)
David.G@ocproject.net
Raul.Alvarez@ocproject.net
Call schedule:
Each 2nd and 4th Wednesday
7:00-8:00am PT / 9:00-10:00am CT / 16.00-17.00 CET
https://meet.goto.com/365766661

9. Connect. Collaborate. Accelerate.
Immersion Requirements
Defining minimum requirements for any immersion technology.
Led by Rolf Brink (Promersion) and Rick Margerison (Rosseau
Group)
Rolf.Brink@ocproject.net
Rick.Margerison@ocproject.net
Call schedule:
Each 3rd Wednesday
7:00-8:00am PT / 9:00-10:00am CT / 16.00-17.00 CET
https://meet.goto.com/582394509

10. Connect. Collaborate. Accelerate.
IT Equipment Warranty in
Immersion
Addressing the challenge of aligning warranties for air-based
and immersion-cooled IT equipment.
Led by Rich Lappenbusch (SuperMicro) and Michael Cordle
(Seagate)
Rich.Lappenbusch@ocproject.net
Michael.Cordle@ocproject.net
Call schedule:
Each 2nd Monday
8:00-9:00am PT / 10:00-11:00am CT / 17.00-18.00 CET
https://meet.goto.com/428579613

11. Connect. Collaborate. Accelerate.
Signal Integrity
Identifying potential issues with signal integrity within IT
platforms and formulates mitigation strategies.
Led by Kai Wang (Intel) and Andy Young (Asperitas)
Kai.Wang@ocproject.net
Andy.Young@ocproject.net
Call schedule:
Each 1st Monday
8:00-9:00am PT / 10:00-11:00am CT / 17.00-18.00 CET
https://meet.goto.com/882255141

12. Connect. Collaborate. Accelerate.
TCO Modelling for Immersion
Creating an open TCO modeling tool for comparing air vs.
immersion cooling.
Led by Eduard Roytman (Intel) and Allison Boen (Independent)
Eduard.Roytman@ocproject.net
Allison.Boen@ocproject.net
Call schedule:
Each 4th Wednesday, addition of 2nd Wednesday in March
8:00-9:00am PT / 10:00-11:00am CT / 17.00-18.00 CET
https://meet.goto.com/522906157

13. Connect. Collaborate. Accelerate.
OAI collaboration
Facilitating cross-collaboration with other OCP communities for next
generation chips to ensure immersion-ready AI platforms.
Led by Cheng Chen (Meta), Jessica Gullbrand (Intel) and Rolf Brink
(Promersion)
ChengChen@meta.com
Jessica.Gullbrand@ocproject.net
Rolf.Brink@ocproject.net
Call schedule:
Closed group, invitation only

14. Connect. Collaborate. Accelerate.
OCP Immersion Pitchdeck
UPS
-40%
GenSet
-40%
no coolers no chillers pumps
-95%
High grade
temperature
Combined
Heat Compute
no fans no bearings no chiller
refrigerants
extended lifetime
no evaporative cooling
CAPEX: 20-35% OPEX: 40-50% TCO: 30-40%

15. Connect. Collaborate. Accelerate.
Released papers
• Material Compatibility in
Immersion Cooling
⎻ Testing procedures
⎻ Material compatibility results
from different fluids
• Base Specification for Immersion
Fluids
⎻ Parameters to meet IT
equipment requirements
⎻ Figure of Merits for thermal
requirements
⎻ Signal Integrity requirements
specify dielectric constant and
loss tangent
Material Compatibility
in Immersion
Immersion Fluid Base
Specification

16. Connect. Collaborate. Accelerate.
Immersion Requirements
• Qualifiable requirements and required disclosures for immersion
technologies
• Includes whitepaper content, outlining some best practices
Immersion Requirements
Immersion Requirements
Checklist

17. Connect. Collaborate. Accelerate.
Generic specs
• Open Cassette
⎻ Immersion-optimized IT chassis
• Fan Simulator
⎻ PCB emulating fans for testing IT
equipment in immersion
Open Cassette
Fan Sim