Peter Hopton talks about the latest liquid cooled HPC system PetaGen at BFI London.

1. Iceotope Our Progress & Vision
An Afternoon With Iceotope
20th January 2015 – Peter Hopton Founder and Chief Visionary Officer

2. Who Are Iceotope?
• British Company based in Sheffield, UK
• Backed By:
• Schneider Electric
• Solvay Specialist Plastics
• Additional partnerships with:
• Intel
• 3M

3. Progress So Far
Our History
• 2005 – Technology Invented
• 2007 – First VC Investment
• 2010 – First Customer Deployed Prototype (1 Week)
• 2011 – New Investors
• 2012 – First Pre-Production Deployment @ Leeds
• 2013 – Pre-Production Deployments @ Poznan (PSNC) and Huddersfield
• 2014 – 4 More Pre-Production Machines Made
• 2014 – November 19th PetaGen Announced
• 2015 – PetaGen Deployments

4. Machines Currently Deployed
8 Machines, 16 Deployments and Counting.
• 4 Pre-Production Systems Running on Customer Sites
• 3 in production use
• Leeds, PSNC “moved from experimental - use on your own risk, to production use”
• >10,000,000 CPUCore Hours of Use
• 3 Pre-Production “Eval Units” have deployed 8 times, successfully operating
in the UK, Europe and the USA
• Unrivalled Energy Efficiency Reported
• “the most effective machine in PSNC, it delivers more than twice the performance per
Watt in our production environment comparing to other machines.”
• 1x 72 Blade PetaGen System Deployed in Sheffield @ Iceotope HQ.

5. Real World Results
• Cooling Overhead (internal): as low as 0.33%
• Cooling Overhead (external): 1.7% - 4% (pPUE 1.017-1.04 @30KW/cab)
• Poznan National Supercomputing Centre indicated 1.7% (2% overall) average
• Romonet indicated 4% cooling overhead in 2N model in Houston Texas
• IT Energy Reduction vs Fan Cooled: 8%
• Based on measurements at Leeds University (Chi et Al 2013)
• Overall performance per watt benefit vs equivalent servers in a high
density, close coupled cooling environment: 40.8%
• Based on studies at Leeds University (Chi et Al 2013)

6. Our Ethos:
The Elimination Of Waste
1. Waste infrastructure required to support servers
2. Waste power consumed in supporting the
electronics – and running the same electronics with
greater speed and efficiency
3. Waste product – producing a viable waste product
in the form of hot water

7. Air Conditioners
IT Cabinets
AKA “Racks”
Each contains
10-20 Servers
Raised Floor
Back Up
Batteries AKA
“UPS” Generators
x4
External Coolers
x8
Power Distribution
1. TLC needs no
A/C
3.TLC servers
have no fans –
use less power
2. No Airflow, no
raised floor
4. No A/C,
average and
peak power
consumption
reduced
x10
x4
x8
x78
x3
x0
5. At least 2x as
many servers
per Cabinet
x2
x2
x8x4
x3972
Iceotope’s Vision

8. PetaGen Blades
(Common Blade Ecosystem)

9. The Iceotope Blade, is sealed, electronics are immersed
Exotic Coolant
High Thermal
Expansivity
Electrical
Insulator
Certified
non-
flammable
Non Ozone
depleting
Clean & Safe

10. PetaGen – 72 Blade
Cabinet
• Standard 800mmx1200mm footprint
• Takes 72 Iceotope Blades
• Zero Airflow
• Deploy in “grey space” not “white space”
• Just add (hot) coolant loop and power
• Liquid Cooled 415V-48V Power Supplies
• Fully redundant at 30kW
• Maximum Capacity 60kW

11. Thanks For Listening
@petehopton
@Iceotope