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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."
You could prepare soup while you supercompute?
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
>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.
Evil people are out to get you.
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.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
"Honey, we ran out of hot water, could you put on some DOOM5 while computing all of pi?"
-]Phreak Out[-
If a lot of people take a shower all at once will this cause a network latency?
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.
I've decided to Diversify my Holdings. I've divided my cash between my left and right pockets, instead of all in one.