Equation 2 · AI Datacenter Power and Cooling: A First-Principles Introduction
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with q'' expressed in watts per square centimetre. Doubling a chip’s power without changing its package size doubles q'' , and every downstream cooling decision in this article follows from trying to hold q'' within what a given cooling medium can actually carry away from that specific surface before the silicon beneath it exceeds its rated temperature.
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- [8] Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling ↗
- [9] H100 GPU ↗
- [10] NVIDIA DGX GB Rack Scale Systems User Guide ↗
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