Tiny Supercomputers The Size of a Sugarcube

Discovery News (Nov 25 2010) Carbon Footprint , Servers , Supercomputer

1. The world's most powerful supercomputer could be the size of a sugar cube and more energy efficient than you might ever imagine. Researchers at IBM's Zurich Labs have developed a prototype supercomputer called the Aquasar that uses a water-cooling principle to keep the system from overheating. The Aquasar is a normal-sized computer; there's nothing tiny about it. But IBM thinks that the water-cooling technology that's proven effective in this supercomputer could work just as well in a vastly smaller machine. The processors in today's computers get very hot, and they have to be cooled off, usually by air. IBM found that using water to cool off a computer's processors is 4,000 times more efficient than using air. (Read Full Article)

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