IBM and ETH Zurich Unveil Aquasar Video

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• IBM PowerXCell

1. In an effort to achieve energy-aware computing, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH), and IBM today announced plans to build a first-of-a-kind water-cooled supercomputer that will directly repurpose excess heat for the university buildings. The innovative system, dubbed Aquasar, is expected to decrease the carbon footprint of the system by up to 85% and estimated to save up to 30 tons of CO2 per year, compared to a similar system using today's cooling technologies. Making computing systems and data centers energy-efficient is a staggering undertaking. (Read Full Article)
   
   

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