CPI IS A SUPERMICRO VAR that has some pretty cool technology for its value add part of the VAR name. Not many people have custom liquid-cooled blades, but this outfit pulls it off.

These are not your usual store-bought ring clamps over cheap housings, no, these are full dry break, quick clip on connectors.

They are amazingly high quality as well, built to last. We are less sure about the tubing, but everything else here is robust and well engineered.

CPI custom cooled Supermicro blade

The most impressive thing on show here in Hannover was watercooled blade server with all the trimmings. You can see the low profile water blocks for the twin Xeons above, but the real interesting bit is the connectors below.

CPI dry-break connectors

CPI was also showing off a nice Infiniband storage box. It is the usual rack mount box of drives, so nothing to see here, the magic is in the software.

They are working with OpenE on the bits and bytes, and it is almost ready for prime time. Expect to hear a lot more about this soon. µ