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Mitigation of hot spots in MEMS employing in situ microchannel systems requires a comprehensive picture of the maldistribution of the working fluid and uniformity of cooling within the same. In this article, detailed simulations employing…
While parallel microchannel based cooling systems have been around for quite a period of time, employing the same and incorporating them for near active cooling of microelectronic devices is yet to be implemented and the implications of the…
Fluidic maldistribution in microscale multichannel devices requires deep understanding to achieve optimized flow and heat transfer characteristics. A thorough computational study has been performed to understand the concentration and…
Hot-spots are considered among the unavoidable consequences of the high integration density of 3D-ICs. Eliminating hot spots requires employing efficient cooling techniques. Using embedded channels, liquid cooling systems can be designed to…
The continuous increase in computational power of GPUs, essential for advancements in areas like artificial intelligence and data processing, is driving the adoption of liquid cooling in data centers. Skived copper cold plates featuring…
Thermal management is a major challenge in next-generation high-performance computing systems, particularly for heterogeneous multi-chip packages such as the NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip. In this work, a physics-based…
The paper presents numerical results on an innovative concept of an efficient, site-specific cooling technology for microprocessor hot spots using Alternating Current Electrothermal Flow (ACET). ACET deploys an electrokinetic transport…
Heterogeneous processors with architecturally different cores (CPU and GPU) integrated on the same die lead to new challenges and opportunities for thermal and power management techniques because of shared thermal/power budgets between…
The demand for high-performance heat sinks has significantly increased with advancements in computing power and the miniaturization of electronic devices. Among the promising solutions, nanofluids have attracted considerable attention due…
Many computational studies on hotspot microfluidic cooling devices found in the literature rely on simplified assumptions and conventions that do not capture the full complexity of the conjugate thermal problem, such as constant…
Optimizing task-to-core allocation can substantially reduce power consumption in multi-core platforms without degrading user experience. However, existing approaches overlook critical factors such as parallelism, compute intensity, and…
High power density systems require efficient cooling to maintain their thermal performance. Despite this, as systems get larger and more complex, human practice and insight may not suffice to determine the desired thermal management system…
The 4th generation of district heating systems face a potential problem where lowered water temperatures lead to higher flow rates, which requires higher hydraulic capacity in terms of pipe and pump sizes. This increases the effect of the…
For computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications with a large number of grid points/cells, parallel computing is a common efficient strategy to reduce the computational time. How to achieve the best performance in the modern…
Modern multiprocessor system-on-chips (SoCs) integrate multiple heterogeneous cores to achieve high energy efficiency. The power consumption of each core contributes to an increase in the temperature across the chip floorplan. In turn,…
We study scheduling problems motivated by recently developed techniques for microprocessor thermal management at the operating systems level. The general scenario can be described as follows. The microprocessor's temperature is controlled…
Recent embedded systems are designed with high-performance System-on-Chips (SoCs) to satisfy the computational needs of complex applications widely used in real life, such as airplane controllers, autonomous driving automobiles, medical…
The race towards performance increase and computing power has led to chips with heterogeneous and complex designs, integrating an ever-growing number of cores on the same monolithic chip or chiplet silicon die. Higher integration density,…
Cooling high-power electronics in multilayer integrated circuits (ICs) is challenging for existing cooling methods. In this work, we designed through-chip microchannels (TCMCs) that cross the entire chip perpendicularly to the layers, with…
Rapid growth in artificial intelligence (AI) workloads is driving up data center power densities, increasing the need for advanced thermal management. Direct-to-chip liquid cooling can remove heat efficiently at the source, but many cold…