Why Thermal Rail™?

Development of Thermal Rail™ began in response to one simple question...​

Why are we still using air cooling?

Well, air cooling is:

• Convenient and easy-to-use

• Safe and reliable

• What we're used to

But it's also:

• Expensive and inefficient

• Limited and limiting

• At end-of-life

Aren't there alternatives to air cooling?

Direct Liquid Cooling and Immersion Cooling have existed since the 1960s and were used in systems such as the Cray-2 and IBM Mainframes.

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More recently, Direct Liquid Cooling and Immersion Cooling have re-appeared, due in large part to the realization that air cooling just isn't enough anymore.

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Direct Liquid Cooling

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• Expensive with multiple cold-plates and quick-disconnects per server

• Thousands of potential points of catastrophic failure per rack

• Can't efficiently cool all the components within a server without air cooling

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Immersion Cooling

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• Complex maintenance

• Incompatible with optical connections and most HDDs

• Expensive coolant with unknown material interactions

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Cray-2 Supercomputer

The market has had their say on alternatives and the market says they're not good enough.

 The market wants something else!

Design goals for Thermal Rail™

Thermal Rail™ was designed to be a viable replacement for air cooling, but in order to do that we had to make sure that Thermal Rail™ had what it took. By following a few simple design goals, we've made sure that it does!

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• Focus on total cost of ownership and scalability

• Keep all the advantages of air without the negatives

  • Convenient and easy to use

  • Safe and reliable

  • Simple and easy to implement​

• Keep cost less than any other alternative with the same or higher efficiency ​

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Follow the links below to learn more about:

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• The Benefits of Thermal Rail™

• The Technology

• Our Intellectual Property