Scalable hardware architecture, scalable cooling system, and convection-cooled electrical circuit

摘要

A unified scalable hardware system architecture contains subsystems which can be made available to a user depending on demand, a status of user's subscription or on a level of acquired licenses. This allows achieving manufacturing economies of scale with flexible monetization policies depending on the subscribed service level.;An electric circuit such as a microprocessor system or a semiconductor control device includes a set of channels coupled to a source of a cooling medium and to an external heat exchanger. This cooling medium may be composed of a single or multi-phase liquid, gas, or mixture of any of the said media with solid particles flowing within an integrated circuit (IC) enclosure tangent to the said IC or across the integrated circuit structure through a set of microchannels.;A scalable microprocessor system adjusts the number of active cores to the capability of a docking station to dissipate waste heat. In the absence of an active external heat sink, the number of active cores is reduced to limit the core temperatures to predefined values.