To make the data center greener, Ali project has the server "in the water" for cooling, saving over 70% of today's black & mystery has been lifted.
2020 January 6, Alibaba announced that it would "immersion liquid-cooled data center technical specifications" open to the society. This specification is intended to provide a design basis for the next generation data center building green base with a set of standard processes, through universal liquid cooling technology to reduce energy consumption of the whole society. Preliminary estimates, if the country's data center liquid cooling technology, a year can save hundreds of billions of electricity.
2009 to 2019, leading the industry is cloud computing changes the decade, the pattern of changes in IT is ten years. Cloud has gone beyond traditional IT, for IT innovation center, the focus of the technology industry and enterprise digital core. Alibaba as the representative of Internet companies with insight into the strengths and solid technology are leading the IT infrastructure of independent research and development and technological innovation, in addition to the liquid cooling technology, Alibaba Infrastructure Division also independently developed a 400G optical modules, memory components smart power technology and other innovative products, the pursuit of the ultimate lifting force count.
2016, Ali Baba Release immersion liquid cooling the world's first server, the server will be immersed in a special dielectric cooling liquid, the heat generating operation can be absorbed directly into the outer circulation cooling, the whole energy consumption for cooling is almost zero. This form of heat transfer efficiency to a hundred times higher than the conventional air cooling, energy saving effect more than 70%.
Compared with traditional IT, liquid-cooled data center behind a huge innovation and revolutionary changes, changes to the system hardware requires a lot of manpower and material resources, the current in this area is almost empty, there is no standard for reference. The Ali Baba open source package specification, covering all aspects of data center design, construction, deployment, operation and maintenance, rational planning through integrated design, reduce deployment costs and enhance stability, led the data center to embark on efficient, clean, green intensive development path.
Unlike traditional OEM equipment manufacturers, Alibaba into the thinking in all areas of technology innovation system. Self-study network switches, for example, a large-scale study from Ali, scalability, simplicity of Internet data center network architecture, through second-level management, construction management and control systems, and many years of experience in network operation and maintenance management model, eventually showing high performance network switches and network operating systems.
"Traditional IT is not lack of innovation, but Artisan innovation," Yuan, general manager of Alpine Infrastructure Division, Alibaba said that more than a decade, the technical people as Ali crafts polished, Alibaba conditions and have the resources, responsibility become IT innovation play, share dividends to the technical community.