METHOD FOR COOLING CABINET-HOUSED INFORMATION PROCESSOR

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently cool a cabinet-housed processor by supplying air cooled by a cooling device from at least one pole among plural poles to an information processor and exhausting air after cooling the information processor from the other poles to the upper part of a rack cabinet. SOLUTION: A cooler 11 is installed on the uppermost part of a rack cabinet, draws outside air from an inlet port 13, cools to and supplies cooled air to front poles 15 by cooled air supplying fans 14. A server device 12 draws cooled air from intake holes 8 in the poles 15, cools the inside and exhausts it to back poles 16 through exhaust holes 9. Heated air exhausted to the poles 16 is delivered to an upper part of the rack cabinet by exhaustion 17. Heat generated by the cooler 11 itself is exhausted to the upper parts of the rack cabinet by cooler cooling fans 18. The cooler 11 adjusts air volume of the fans 14 and 17 and the temperature of cooled air to be supplied according to information of the number and temperature of server devices 12 which are connected to the cooler 11.