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Title: DYnamically MANaged self-cooling HPC Data Centers.

ICCOM Principal Investigator: Angelo Freni.

Project type: Internazionale – Horizon Europe.

Duration: 01/07/2024 -30/06/2027.

Website: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101161930

Abstract: YMAN targets the development of a completely new design of adsorption chillers based on the following innovations (1) New low temperature adsorbents achieving high capacities at very low driving temperatures below 50 °C. (2) New type of adsorption heat exchangers made of 3D printed structures integrating the adsorption material into a porous structure, which reduces the internal thermal resistances and improvement of heat transfer by two-phase flow, enhancing the heat transfer rate and reducing the internal electricity consumption of the unit. Additionally the project aims to develop at second core concept to further develop an existing two-phase cooling system, for high-performance computing servers to handle thermal loads more efficiently from next-generation processors. Goals include increasing cooling capacities for processors generating high heat fluxes like the Nvidia H100 chip which produces 70 W/cm². An additional objective is to recover 50% of waste heat from processors to generate additional cooling power through a sorption heat pump. Combining two-phase cooling directly with heat-powered cooling could significantly improve efficiency over conventional air or water-based cooling methods alone. Furthermore, the cooling data center management is a complex engineering system with interactions with different components of the data centers. So, DYMAN proposes a new way of active management of the data center integrating the cooling system as part of the optimization of processor management.

Coordinator: Dr. Mikel Borras, IDP Ingenieria Y Arquitectura Iberia Sl (Spain).

Partnership: CNR-ICCOM (IT), Sorption Technologies GmbH (DE), Comet Global Innovation, SL (ES), Building Digital Twin Association (BE), Cibelios Ingeniería S.L. (ES), Energy Aware Solutions S.L. (ES),  Università degli Studi di Torino (IT), In Quattro Srl (IT), Barcelona Supercomputing Center Centro Nacion (ES).

ICCOM participants: Angelo Freni, Emilia Bramanti, Claudio Evangelisti, Silvia Pizzanelli, Roberto Spiniello.

Financed by: European Commission, HORIZON-EIC-2023-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01-01 – EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Clean and efficient cooling, Grant agreement ID: 101161930 .

Project total budget: 3,999,000.00 €

ICCOM total budget: € 405,625.00 €