Rackmount server system and method for controlling same
AssigneeDobe Computing Co., Ltd.
InventorSung Kyun Lee
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Abstract
Provided are a rack mount server system, which has no damage to computation equipment even if a disorder occurs in a cooling device, which is easy to maintain, minimize power consumption, which has a simple structure, and which performs an efficient cooling, and a control method thereof. The system comprises: a rack housing; and a cooling zone which is placed in the rack housing, which stores a server, and which is forcibly cooled. The rack housing comprises a heat exchanger and an evaporator, which cool the cooling zone. The cooling methods of the cooling structure may be different in accordance with the internal temperature of the cooling zone and the external temperature of the cooling zone.
Claims17
A rack mount server system, comprising:
- a rack housing;
- a cooling zone which is placed inside the rack housing and forcibly cooled, the cooling zone storing a server;
- and
- a cooling structure spatially separated from the cooling zone, the cooling structure including a heat exchanger and an evaporator spaced apart from the heat exchanger, wherein the cooling structure is configured to operate at least one of the heat exchanger and the evaporator according to a temperature inside the cooling zone and a temperature outside the rack housing,
- wherein the heat exchanger includes a heat exchange pipe, inside of which a first air flows from outside of the rack housing and outside of which a second air flows from inside of the cooling zone, and the heat exchanger is configured to operate when the first air has a temperature lower than that of the second air, and
- wherein, independently from the heat exchanger, the evaporator receives a refrigerant via a condenser and a compressor and exchanges heat by liquid evaporation, the condenser and the compressor being spatially separated from the evaporator and the heat exchanger by a partition wall.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.