Patent ID: 8179674

Claim:
A scalable space-optimized and energy-efficient computing system comprising: a plurality of modular compartments in at least one level of a frame, the frame configured in a hexahedron configuration, the frame having at least one modular compartment of the plurality of modular compartments on each of four sides of the frame; an air inlet; an air mixing plenum; and at least one fan, wherein: the plurality of modular compartments are affixed above the air inlet, the air mixing plenum is affixed above the plurality of modular compartments, the at least one fan is affixed above the air mixing plenum, and when at least one module is inserted into the one of the plurality of modular compartments, the at least one module couples to a backplane within the frame, wherein the backplane has four portions and wherein each portion of the four portions of the backplane is parallel to a face of one side of the four sides of the frame having the at least one modular compartment.