new mexico-based aquila, the creator of the aquarius line of liquid cooled computing solutions, has partnered with tas energy to turn its compute, switching, and storage cooling technology into a liquid cooling solution for edge data centers. the herma micro data center is an eight-foot by eight-foot data center with state-of-the-art storage and bandwith and cooled by aquarius’ fixed cold plate, warm water cooling system.

aquila and tas energy have created a liquid cooling solution for edge data centers. (wikimedia commons)

as an article on the stack noted, by having liquid cooling solutions at the rack level, aquila and tas energy have taken away the need forced-air cooling of the data center. this saves on costs, as there is no need for large and expensive hvac systems.

the herma provides 1584 e5-2600v4 compute cores, 9.2 tb of aggregate ddr4 ram, as much as 6.4 pb of storage, and 200 gb/sec or more of bandwith depending on the customer’s needs. the storage unit is built on scalable informatics’ stac unison technology, according to an article on inside hpc.

a press release from the company stated, “aquarius racks provide high speed computing and tuned storage while saving an average of 250,000 kw hrs/yr and reducing the heat profile by as much as 30 percent in this application.”

this new solution meets the growing need for data centers to be decentralized. edge data centers distribute highest-demand content closer to the consumers and remove the bottlenecking and latency that can be found when all data is coming from one centralized location.

the herma will be available for shipping in early 2017.