Patent ID: 8203842

Claim:
A cooling apparatus for cooling an electronic system, the cooling apparatus comprising: a liquid-tight enclosure facilitating providing immersion-cooling of the electronic system; an open flow cold plate disposed within the liquid-tight enclosure, the open flow cold plate being associated with the electronic system and having a coolant conduit, the coolant conduit enabled for supplying coolant to the open flow cold plate; wherein the open flow cold plate comprises a bottom surface coupled to an electronic component of the electronic system for convective heat transfer therefrom, and at least one open port on a side surface thereof, wherein coolant supplied to the open flow cold plate flows out from the open flow cold plate through the at least one open port on the side surface into the liquid-tight enclosure to provide immersion-cooling through coolant-effluent flow emanating from the open flow cold plate to cool additional electronic components of the electronic system disposed in the liquid-tight enclosure.