Cooling firm Asperitas has launched a new line of modular Direct Forced Convection products for immersion cooling.

The Dutch company this month launched its DFCX series, a product line designed for standalone Edge facilities through to and including hyperscale data centers.

Asperitas announced plans to launch a Direct Forced Convection immersion tank in June 2024. Previously, Asperitas offered a perpetual natural convection immersion tank.

The modular cluster architecture can range from 12U upwards in each tank, and supports ‘supercluster’ configurations with multiple tanks and CDUs.

The 12U tank supports cooling up to 5kW/U and more than 1kW per chip. A single DFCX1 solution supports compute clusters of 3x4U system nodes, with a total of 24 GPUs with targeted flow and up to 60kW of cooling capacity.

Rutger de Haij, Asperitas CEO, said: “Reliability and seamless integration are at the forefront of Asperitas’ core values in product development, so we’re thrilled to announce the DFCX product line. We’re driving successful digital infrastructure growth with our Perpetual Natural Convection (PNC) and DFCX technology, especially now in what many call the accelerated decade where AI has an impact on the full stack.”

According to the company’s specs page, the unit measures 600mm x 1,215mm x 1,990 mm. It will weigh around 1,120kg with IT and offer an electrical capacity of 44kW. The tank requires a minimum of 352 liters of dielectric fluid – Asperitas has partnered with Shell for its fluid.

Dr. Andy Young, CTO of Asperitas, added: “Natural and forced convection technologies are our expertise, and the DFCX1 achieves a cooling density that exceeds the power density, without excessive overheads. We’re excited to share that additional products in the DFCX line will soon be introduced to further support the evolving needs of digital infrastructure. Ultimately, Asperitas is setting the standard on Thermal Design Power cooling capability.”