{"id":757045,"date":"2021-06-27T18:19:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T01:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-project&#038;p=757045"},"modified":"2025-02-05T11:05:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:05:04","slug":"zissou-new-datacenter-server-and-software-architectures-for-liquid-cooled-systems","status":"publish","type":"msr-project","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/zissou-new-datacenter-server-and-software-architectures-for-liquid-cooled-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Zissou: New datacenter, server, and software architectures for liquid-cooled systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"mb-3 moray-highlight\">\n\t<div class=\"card-img-overlay mx-lg-0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"card-background  has-background-grey card-background--full-bleed\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<!-- Foreground -->\n\t\t<div class=\"card-foreground d-flex mt-md-n5 my-lg-5 px-g px-lg-0\">\n\t\t\t<!-- Container -->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container d-flex mt-md-n5 my-lg-5 align-self-center\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Card wrapper -->\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"w-100 w-lg-col-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Card -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card material-md-card py-5 px-md-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card-body \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading h2\" id=\"zissou\">Zissou<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>New datacenter, server, and software architectures for liquid-cooled systems<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The Zissou project is exploring liquid cooling in large-scale cloud platforms. Our main motivation is that chip power has been steadily increasing since the end of Dennard scaling. Ever increasing power requires increasingly larger air-cooling infrastructures, which in turn increase costs. In fact, we expect that air cooling will become unacceptably expensive in the next 5 years. Liquid cooling enables cheaper and more stable cooling, higher server density, and lower costs than air cooling.&nbsp;It also enables new efficiency gains from component overclocking, better management of failures and repairs, and resource disaggregation.&nbsp; As part of Zissou, we are building a new Cloud OS, i.e., an intelligent control plane for liquid-cooled cloud platforms.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{\"201341983\":0,\"335559739\":160,\"335559740\":240}\">&nbsp;Zissou is a close collaboration between Azure Core, AHSI, CO+I, and E+D.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{\"201341983\":0,\"335559739\":300,\"335559740\":240}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zissou project is exploring immersion cooling in large-scale cloud platforms. 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