Coral Pod Platform

Coral Pod architecture

A CoralDC pod is seven engineering layers designed together and integrated in a factory. This page describes each layer, what CoralDC engineers and what it sources, and where the design constraints actually bind. Structural enclosure, thermal core, heat rejection, power, network, control and safety, and operations.

Drawing

The seven integrated layers

The seven integrated layers of a CoralDC container pod
Layer 01

Structural enclosure

ISO container or bespoke engineered enclosure, selected against the destination environment. Reinforced floor channel under every tank position to carry 855 kg per square metre. Ingress protection appropriate to the deployment, typically IP54 or better for external plant and IP20 to IP31 for the conditioned interior. Seismic restraint to IBC and ASCE 7 category C as a baseline, D where the site requires it. Transport qualification to ISTA 3E or ASTM D4169 assurance level II.

CoralDC engineers this layer. The requirement combination of fluid containment, road and sea transport, unstaffed serviceability and building code compliance is not addressed by any standard enclosure.

Layer 02

Thermal core

42U single-phase immersion tanks in stainless steel with powder coated mild steel internal structure, acrylic viewing window and top and front door access. PAO or synthetic dielectric fluid, fluid agnostic by design. Dual multistage pumps with variable frequency drive at 25 cubic metres per hour and 58 metres head, 304 stainless wetted parts, PN25. Integrated filtration and drain.

CoralDC engineers the hydraulic architecture and qualifies the fluid. It does not formulate fluid, and says so.

Layer 03

Heat rejection

Dry cooler as the primary path everywhere. Dew point and indirect evaporative technology for hot dry climates. Trim chiller only where ambient conditions require it. Oil to air, oil to water and oil to oil rejection modes are all supported.

CoralDC sources this layer. There is no version of CoralDC winning at heat rejection engineering against companies that have built nothing else for fifty years, and pretending otherwise would be the wrong use of engineering budget.

Layer 04

Power

Switchboard, busway and intelligent power distribution, protection coordination at the building interface, UPS and energy storage interface, and electrical instrumentation at a resolution useful to the control layer rather than only to billing. Input 110 to 240 V, 50 or 60 Hz, 24 V DC control supply.

At 800 kW and 400 V three phase the pod draws approximately 1,216 A at 0.95 power factor. Power conversion loss inside a sealed enclosure is heat that must then be removed, so CoralDC specifies conversion efficiency as a thermal parameter and not only an electrical one.

Layer 05

Network

Ethernet and InfiniBand, structured cabling engineered for the tank access pattern, carrier and satellite interface. Fabric agnostic. The network layer is sourced and integrated rather than invented.

Layer 06

Control and safety

Integrated PLC automation with Modbus TCP/IP remote monitoring across temperature logging, pump health, flow, pressure and oil level, remote firmware update and a predictive maintenance data path, presented locally on dual 42 inch displays.

Nine standard safety interlocks: oil leak detection, emergency stop, high temperature shutdown, low flow protection, over pressure protection, pump redundancy, power failure recovery, door safety interlock and electrical isolation. In a hospital, a school or a government building this list is the specification that gets read first.

Layer 07

Operations

Remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, orchestration and an optional managed service through Coral Compute. The infrastructure remains on the customer's premises, in the customer's jurisdiction, under the customer's physical control. What is delegated is operational labour, not custody.

Boundaries

What CoralDC does not build

CoralDC does not manufacture GPUs, cooling fluids, cold plates, heat pumps, batteries or generating equipment, and does not intend to. The engineering CoralDC owns is the thermal, hydraulic and control integration of a complete pod, the telemetry schema underneath it and the operating model on top. Component technology is sourced from specialists and selected on evidence.

Stating this improves credibility rather than reducing it. A company claiming to have invented every layer of its own stack has either wasted a great deal of capital or is describing a product that does not exist.

Thermal flow schematic of a CoralDC pod showing the dielectric primary loop, water glycol secondary loop, waterless heat rejection, optional heat recovery offtake and the control plane
Next Step

Request an Architecture Review

A structured technical assessment covering electrical capacity, floor loading, delivery access, plant space and jurisdiction for a specific site.