Super Guzzlers?

Relocate (Dec 15 2009) Supercomputer

1. Environmentally conscious people often support a slower pace of life, with lesser amounts of consumption. Stopping to smell the roses may be great but in the data center industry it could spell disaster for a company. Ergo, enter the monsters of the cyber world – the Supercomputers. On one hand, you need supercomputers to cope up with the necessity to operate faster and faster and crunch through ever- increasing amounts of data and on the other hand, there are mounting concerns about the power required to drive and cool these mammoths. Imagine hot CPUs scrunched together in one small space, throwing off heat in vast amounts and imagine the kind of energy that will need to go into keeping them cool. Even if they are on the Green500 list, they still need vast amounts of energy to operate. Take for example, the Cray X5-HE at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It ... (Read Full Article)

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