Free cooling for a supercomputer
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a central research organization for more than 75 US universities, has built a 170,000 sq. ft. data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, which holds a powerful supercomputer and uses innovative methods to power and cool the building and the equipment it contains, with a target Power Usage Efficiency (PUE) of just 1.08. In the mid-2000s, NCAR staff determined that their existing supercomputing facility in Boulder, Colorado, would quickly become unable to support modern HPC systems used by scientists.
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