Cooling Environments/Immersion

Welcome

Welcome to the OCP ACS Immersion Cooling Sub-project to the Rack & Power Project.

This Project is open to the public and we welcome all those who would like to be involved.

Disclaimer: Please do not submit any confidential information to the Project Community. All presentation materials, proposals, meeting minutes and/or supporting documents are published by OCP and are open to the public in accordance to OCP's Bylaws and IP Policy. This can be found on the OCP OCP Policies page. If you have any questions please contact OCP.

Project Leadership

ACS Immersion Cooling Sub-project Leads

- Rolf Brink (Asperitas)

- John Bean (GRC)

For Rack & Power ACS Project leadership, please refer to the ACS wiki page

- Rack & Power/ACS Wiki

Activities

The Immersion sub-project enables community driven activities focused on facilitating OCP and industry progression of immersion cooling. Within the Rack and Power ACS group, this project also facilitates harmonization between different ACS sub-projects and the Advanced Cooling Facilities sub-project to the DCF group.

Immersion Requirements Qualification

The Immersion Requirements sub-project is responsible for the generation and qualification of requirements for immersion solutions. The requirements are aimed at ensuring accurate and factual technology positioning and weeding out marketing claims vs solid engineering. Vendors need to qualify against the requirements which are outlined in the Immersion Requirements document to gain access to a variety of OCP domains, including marketplace or SPEC recognition. Some examples are as follows:

- OCP immersion spec submission

- OCP Logo accreditation for immersion solutions (accepted/inspired)

- OCP solution branding

- OCP Marketplace positioning

- OCP Solution building

The qualification process is as follows:

1- A qualification request with a filled-out checklist shall be sent to the Immersion Community project leads.

2- The Project leads will assess the submission and checklist and when accepted, schedule a 20-minute presentation for the submitter in the next available community call time slot.

a- The presentation shall be made available to the project leads at the latest 1 week before the scheduled community call.

b- The presentation shall explain why and how the submitted solution qualifies against this Immersion Requirements document.

3- A 60-minute interactive review will be scheduled by a community committee:

a- The committee is overseen by one of the immersion project leads.

b- The committee will consist of the Immersion Requirements authors which are invited by the project leads.

c- All materials (checklist, community presentation, community questions and other collateral) are shared with the reviewers at least 1 week before the review meeting.

i- There will be 1 week to review materials, request additional feedback and ask follow-up questions after the review session;

ii- There will be 1 additional week to allow for all votes to be cast;

iii The committee will approve, decline or provide feedback to resolve before approval, based on the Immersion Requirements.

4- The community committee is formed as follows:

a- All authors of the Immersion Requirements document are invited to be panelists;

b- One of the immersion project leads oversees the qualification process and panel;

c- Each company represented in the panel counts as 1 vote (excluding the qualifying company);

d- A quorum is achieved with a minimum of 5 votes present in the panel.

Focus groups

Material Compatibility

Status: Active

Point of contact

- Punith Shivaprasad(Shell)

- John Bean (Independent)

Related documents

- Material Compatibility database working document

Immersion Requirements Rev2

Status: Active (1st addendum to Rev2 in progress)

Point of contact

- Rolf Brink (Asperitas)

Related documents

- Immersion Requirements rev2 (PDF)

- Immersion Requirements rev2 (DOCX)

- Immersion qualification checklist (XLSX)

Immersion Requirements - Flashpoints

- Community Update May 18, 2021

Immersion Cooling Hurdles

Status: Active

Points of contact

- David Gyulnazaryan (Independent)

Related documents

- TBD

Power Distribution in Immersion

Status: Active

Points of contact

- TBD

Design Guidelines for Immersion-Cooled IT Equipment

Status: Completed

Points of contact

- Rolf Brink (Asperitas)

- Nigel Gore (Vertiv)

Related documents

- Design Guidelines for Immersion-Cooled IT Equipment

Hardware Management for Liquid Cooling

Status: Active

Points of contact

- Mick Jones (Vertiv)

Related documents

- TBD

Accepted contributions

- Mar 06, 2019: Asperitas Fan Sim Specification

- May 20, 2019: ACS Immersion Community Requirements White Paper

- Feb 27, 2020: Asperitas Open Cassette Specification

- Feb 27, 2020: Asperitas Open Cassette design file

- Dec 18, 2020: Design Guidelines for Immersion Cooled IT equipment Whitepaper

- Jan 21, 2022: Immersion Requirements rev2

Get Involved

Mailing lists

If you would like to get more involved in the project, please sign-up on the mailing list. This is the primary method that we use to communicate project status, meeting schedules, and agendas.

- ACS Mailing List

- ACS Immersion Mailing List