IBM Supercomputer Cooled With Hot Water

1sockchuck writes "IBM has deployed an innovative supercomputer cooled by hot water in a Zurich computer lab. The Aquasar supercomputer employs a chip-level liquid cooling system that can use water at temperatures as high as 60 degrees C (140 degrees F), and as a result consumes up to 40 percent less energy than a comparable system using room-level air-cooling. The system also uses waste heat to provide warmth to buildings, reducing Aquasar's carbon footprint even further."

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Sooo

[binarylarry]

You could prepare soup while you supercompute?

Re:Sooo

[bsDaemon]

a soupercomputer?

Re:Sooo

[EdIII]

I would think it would soup or computer.

In United soviet-States, Hot-water cools you.

[Anonymous Coward]

When will they talk about the cooling capabilities of a GEET Heat Exchanger, or pre-ignition Catalytic Converter? Plasma physics practically transmutes radiant heat into actual matter, so that would be interesting if excess heat was carbonized into coal or perhaps into White light for an inductable surface-level cold fusion illuminance and energy collection from the surrounding environment! This would do well to cool rooves, because I know that rooftops on houses absorb sunlight into heat that does more to cause The Greenhouse Effect than actual Greenhouse Gas released through combustion.

PS: Thread Lost, OP's face: \*o*/

Re:There is a video

[TechyImmigrant]

>Evidence of this: Hot tap that was not turned off at the mains snorts.

My hot tap is not turned off at the mains and it has never snorted.

Re:There is a video

[jd]

I'm much more puzzled by what a hot water tap would snort. There can't be much that would give a lump of metal much of a buzz.

taking a shower

[TrancePhreak]

"Honey, we ran out of hot water, could you put on some DOOM5 while computing all of pi?"

Lack of cooling water = overheated chips = ?

[mbstone]

If a lot of people take a shower all at once will this cause a network latency?

Re:There is a video

[Jarik C-Bol]

the explanation that i was given for hot water freezing faster (and i'll admit that i am not a hydrologist of whatever so work with me here) that hot water froze faster because the water molecules where in a more energetic state, which allowed them to assemble into crystalline structures more readily.
retrospectively, that does sort of sound like bullshit.

so i'll admit, the hot water example was a extremely bad one based on anecdotal evidence. But hey! my grandmother used anecdotal evidence all the time, and she lived to be... well she's still alive.