A cooling system is configured to supply individually metered amounts of
cooling fluid to heat generating components, e.g., processors,
micro-controllers, high speed video cards, disk drives, semi-conductor
devices, and the like, of an electronic system. The cooling system
includes at least one variable speed fan, e.g., blower, configured to
supply fluid through a centralized plenum and thereafter through a
plurality of nozzles to the components of the electronic system. Each of
the nozzles contains a valve to control the amount of fluid flow through
the each of the nozzles. A controller is provided to control the operation
of the variable speed fan and the operation of each of the valves is also
controlled by a controller. By substantially controlling the amount of
cooling fluid supplied to each of the components based upon the amount of
heat generated by each component, the cooling system of the present
invention may operate in a more efficient manner, thereby requiring
substantially less energy than conventional cooling systems.
