US department of energy to cool exascale HPC with local weather

news.techworld.com (Feb 8 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Servers

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   In a picturesque spot overlooking San Francisco Bay, the US Department of Energy's Berkeley Lab has begun building a new computing centre that will one day house exascale systems. The DOE doesn't know what an exascale system will look like. The types of chips, the storage, the networking and programming methods that will go into these systems are all works in progress. DOE is expected to deliver a report by the end of this week outlining a plan for reaching exascale computing by 1919-1920 and its expected cost. But what the DOE does have an idea about it is how to cool these systems. The Computational Research and Theory (CRT) Facility at Berkeley will use outside air cooling. It can rely on the Bay area's cool temperatures to meet its needs about 95% of the time, said Katherine Yelick, associate lab director for computing sciences at the ...

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