CANUS
The rooftop dry cooler of a PortaDC at sunset, coolant pipework along its base

CANUS/Technology

The engineeringunder every pod.

Cooling loop, boundary controller, scheduler, operating record and armour, designed and tested as one machine.

Inside the pod

01Cooling

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01Cooling01 / 05

Liquid to the chip.Heat to the sky.

Direct-to-chip cold plates take most of the heat; in-row air takes the rest. The loop is closed, so there is no water to source and none to waste after the first fill.

Cold plates and coolant lines on a liquid-cooled server tray
  1. 01

    Direct to chip

    Most of the heat

    Cold plates sit on every GPU and CPU. Coolant arrives cool, leaves warmer, and never touches the air in the hall.

  2. 02

    In-row air

    The remainder

    In-row units handle memory, drives, networking and everything the plates do not touch, so standard racks slide in unchanged.

  3. 03

    The dry cooler

    On the roof

    A rooftop dry cooler rejects the heat straight to air. Supply coolant at or below 35 °C at a 45 °C design ambient, with a 50 °C survival margin.

  4. 04

    The result

    1.10 – 1.21 Design PUE

    450 kW of IT load on about 545 kW of facility input, no evaporative water, and a built-in cushion that gives the host its headroom without touching the tenant's racks.

The rack aisle inside a PortaDC vault looking out to the solar farm

Liquid to the chip.Heat to the air.

45 °C
Design ambient
1.10 to 1.21
Design PUE
03The brain03 / 05

The brain inside every pod.

A rack-mounted unit in every pod. FrontierGate™ holds the boundary; LARUS AI™ signs what crossed it.

The FrontierGate boundary controller: a rack-mounted unit with the FrontierGate mark on its face
  1. 01The cushion, executed at the boundary

    5:00 PM host load spike

    • Host boundary: held
    • Tenant firm floor: unchanged
    • Pulse racks trimmed: never
  2. 02The buffer carries the cushion

    45 °C summer afternoon

    • Supply coolant: at or below 35 °C
    • Design ambient: 45 °C · survival 50 °C
    • Evaporative water: none after fill
  3. 03Two channels, hardware-signed

    The LARUS AI operating record

    • Boundary power // Hardware-signed
    • Thermal delivery // Hardware-signed
    • Fault isolation // Independent, hardware
04Security04 / 05

Designed for 45 °C. Survives 50 °C.

Four layers, from the fence line to the certificate.

  1. 01

    Fenced, monitored switchyard perimeter

    Sited inside fenced, 24/7 monitored solar-and-battery switchyards or secured industrial premises. No public foot traffic.

  2. 02

    Windowless weathering-steel armour (IP55)

    Solid corrugated weathering-steel walls with no air-intake louvres, internal deadbolts, vibration sensing and clean-agent fire detection and suppression to Australian standards.

  3. 03

    One signed record, one fault trip

    LARUS AI™ hardware-signs boundary power and thermal delivery into one auditable ledger. Tamper-linked telemetry and independent hardware fault isolation sit alongside.

  4. 04

    Factory-tested. Certified in Australia.

    Every pod passes witnessed factory acceptance testing before it ships, then Australian integration and certification: AS/NZS 61439 switchboard, revenue-grade boundary metering, fire detection and suppression to Australian standards, statutory AS/NZS 3000 certification and site acceptance sign-off.

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Pre-plumbed forevery frontier chip.

Every rack in the lineup plugs into the same pod. Change the silicon; keep the pod. You bring it; we never touch it.

  • GPUs

    NVIDIA

    • GB300 NVL72
    • GB200 NVL72
    • HGX B300 / B200
    • HGX H200 / H100
    • RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
  • GPUs

    AMD

    • Instinct MI355X
    • Instinct MI350X
    • Instinct MI325X
    • Instinct MI300X
    • ROCm software stack
  • Servers

    Dell

    • PowerEdge XE9712
    • PowerEdge XE9680L
    • PowerEdge XE9680
    • PowerEdge XE9785L
    • PowerEdge XE7745
  • Servers

    HPE

    • GB200 NVL72 by HPE
    • ProLiant Compute XD685
    • Cray XD670
    • ProLiant DL380a Gen12
    • Cray EX
  • Servers

    Supermicro

    • GB200 NVL72 SuperCluster
    • 4U liquid-cooled HGX B200
    • HGX H200 8-GPU
    • Liquid-cooled MI355X
    • DLC-2 cooling
  • Servers

    Lenovo

    • ThinkSystem SC777 V4
    • ThinkSystem SR780a V3
    • ThinkSystem SR680a V3
    • ThinkSystem SR685a V3
    • Neptune liquid cooling

Third-party brands and models identify compatible hardware, interfaces and specification standards only. No affiliation, endorsement or partnership is implied.

Deploy

See iton the pad.

Walk the pod on the PortaDC page, or tell us the workload and we'll configure one for you.

Inside the pod

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