Aquastar IBM supercomputer is a water-cooled
Modding enthusiasts know that when their platform to reach their full potential overclock want there to always water cooling route. Following each change can, its clock rate only go so far before the chip is a useless piece of molten silicon, and the fans is not exactly the best way to execute all very cool, independent of the size of the blade. Coolant, on the other hand, can unleash the full potential of the CPU, because it drives everything to the extreme, it is quite interesting, the computer giant IBM is coming to IBM Aquasar hear that from his name, you can say, he has something to do with water. You're right – the Aquasar IBM is the first of its kind in hot water cooled supercomputer, which is currently seeing action at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich).
This unique configuration Aquasar computer consumes 40% less juice compared to a conventional air-cooled computer, but thanks to the direct use of waste heat in the heating of the building, in a 85% reduction in emissions of carbon dioxide. Well, what would you say that when it comes to keeping things nice and green? Imagine if all the supercomputers in the world were to run such a principle, as it were so. At least it shows that nerds to keep out of their way to the green world for the next generation. Otherwise, it is less powerful air conditioning in the server of the number one office building or data center network that will reach even more green in the long term.
Housed in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich, consists of three Aquasar IBM BladeCenter H chassis with 33 IBM BladeCenter QS22 Server (dual processor IBM PowerXCell 8i each) and nine IBM BladeCenter HS22 servers (two processors Intel Nehalem EP each). Among them is a single chassis is cooled by air, while the rest were liquid micro-channel heat sinks directly to processors and components within the server, which are then cooled in hot water (up to 60 C fixed).