A liquid-cooled server that accepts conditioned coolant
Legacy
An air-cooled server that accepts only room air
Server that requires both air and liquid provided by the building
A computer that provides some service for other computers connected to it via a network. The most common example is a file server, which has a local disk and services requests from remote clients to read and write files on that disk
Ratio of the sensible heat load to the total heat load (sensible plus latent)
See heat load, sensible
A material that is neither a good conductor of electricity nor a good insulator. The most common semiconductor materials are silicon, gallium arsenide, and germanium. These materials are then doped to create an excess or lack of electrons and used to build computer chips
A file that contains a sequence of instructions for an interpreter or the script for that interpreter to follow
The set of benchmark rules that defines what constitutes a valid test with that benchmark. Usually these define legal configurations, experimental limitations, and any operating constraints
A layer 3 interconnection device that appears as a media access control (MAC) to a CSMA/CD collision domain (see IEEE Std 610.7-1995 [B38])