Gartner Emerging Tech Impact Radar: Generative AI Hardware Technologies
Liquid Cooling
Build an AI-ready ecosystem. AHEAD’s critical infrastructure expertise and dedicated facility for integrating air and liquid cooled racks at scale help you handle high-density workloads, sustainably.
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This Gartner report helps you make sense of emerging technologies for AI hardware, including liquid cooling. Choose the right infrastructure for the future of your enterprise.
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LIQUID COOLING BY THE NUMBERS
reduced energy consumption
reduction in carbon footprint
better performance in HPC tasks
ENTERPRISE-SCALE AI/HPC INFRASTRUCTURE
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Liquid Cooling for Performance and Reliability
- Driven by the increasing need for high-power chips and servers in data center infrastructure, AHEAD’s state-of-the-art facility is designed for the complexities of direct-to-chip liquid cooled racks.
- Racks of densely packed systems are optimally configured for thermal management, resulting in improved performance, reduced risk of overheating, and increased reliability of critical components like CPUs and GPUs.
- Improvements in total cost of ownership are achievable through higher density, increased use of free cooling, improved performance, and improved performance per watt.
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Rack Integration for Greater Scalability and Customization
- Individual and multi-rack integrated solutions are customized to handle the computational demands for a variety of AI and HPC workloads.
- Utilizing high-density server solutions that support multiple GPUs or processors within a single liquid-cooled rack significantly boosts processing power and capacity within a similar physical footprint.
- Integrating the liquid cooling systems with existing facility infrastructure can enhance overall efficiency and scalability while optimizing performance to cost.
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Direct-to-Chip Liquid Cooling for Efficiency and Sustainability
- The power needed to operate a full rack of high-density servers for AI/HPC workloads can be four to twelve times higher than that of an average server rack, beyond the limits of current air-based cooled data centers.
- Liquid cooling has become a critical technology for maintaining electrical and thermal efficiency in these environments and to reduce the consumption of natural resources.
- Direct-to-chip liquid cooling has emerged as the industry ’s preferred method because liquid removes heat more effectively than air and eliminates the reliance on server fans, which also optimizes space utilization.
- Direct-to-chip liquid cooled racks enable data centers to support thermal requirements without major data center restructuring, unlike the alternative immersion cooling, which requires a significantly higher investment to deploy.
AHEAD DEDICATED RACK SCALE INTEGRATION FACILITY
As an end-to-end infrastructure solution provider, AHEAD’s suburban Chicago campus consists of three facilities with more than 250K square feet dedicated to manufacturing, integration, warehousing, and global logistics, 75K square feet of which represents a dedicated rack integration facility.
Our diverse team of hardware and AI experts can design and implement infrastructure solutions that are exceptionally reliable, resilient, and secure.
AHEAD deploys complete and fully tested solutions from our facilities to yours including the racks, servers, liquid cooling infrastructure, and networking.
AHEAD’S HANDS-ON INNOVATION LAB
60 rack lab space to test and validate custom cooling solutions tailored to specific workloads.
Hands-on environment to benchmark performance gains across diverse AI architectures, with support for multiple GPU and CPU configurations.
Features both rack-scale and direct-to-chip cooling, alongside facility chiller cooling demonstrations that simulate real-world deployment scenarios.
Empowers data-driven infrastructure decisions based on side-by-side comparisons of thermal efficiency and power consumption.
SOLUTIONS ALIGNED WITH YOUR AI JOURNEY
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AI Planning
AHEAD helps determine your AI opportunity, define use cases and data requirements, and set a course for AI that turns potential into an acceleration plan.
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AI Engineering
AHEAD modernizes your data foundation and your digital core, edge, and cloud, to set you up for success with AI.
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AI Activation
AHEAD pairs, tunes, and automates your machine learning and AI models with use cases and requirements on top of a strong data foundation.
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