IBM Hot Water-Cooled Supercomputer Goes Live at ETH Zurich

Explore PR Newswire (Jul 2 2010) Carbon Footprint , Servers

... It is supported by the Swiss Centre of Competence of support for Energy and Mobility (CCEM). * The IBM BladeCenter Cluster is comprised of three IBM BladeCenter H chassis with a total of thirty-three IBM BladeCenter QS22 servers (two IBM PowerXCell 8i Processors each) and  nine IBM BladeCenter HS22 servers (two Intel Nehalem EP Processors each). Water-cooled are two IBM BladeCenter H Chassis with in total twenty-two IBM BladeCenter QS22 and ... (Read Full Article)

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IBM and ETH Zurich Unveil Aquasar Video

Explore www-03.ibm.com (Jul 1 2009) Power and Cooling , Servers , Supercomputer

... buildings being produced by fossil fuels. (2) BladeCenter® servers with a mixed population of QS22 IBM PowerXCell 8i processors as well as HS22 with Intel Nehalem processor. In addition, a third air-cooled IBM BladeCenter® server will be implemented to serve as a reference system for measurements. Please not... (Read Full Article)

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Ten of the Coolest and Most Powerful Supercomputers of All Time

Explore Pingdom web site monitoring blog (Jun 11 2009) Cloud Computing , Supercomputer

...ery clearly by their purpose (judging by this one and Fujitsu’s Numerical Wind Tunnel). Blue Gene/L IBM initially developed the Blue Gene family of supercomputers to simulate biochemical processes involv......2008 and was the first computer able to keep a sustained 1 petaflops performance. It has 12,960 IBM PowerXCell 8i processors operating at 3.2 GHz and 6,480 dual-core AMD Opteron processors operating at 1.8 ... (Read Full Article)

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