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IBM launches liquid cooled supercomputer
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 17:33 IST
Bangalore: If your computer heats up very fast, then now you have some relief offered by IBM. It has come up with a technique of doubling the space heater that lowers the carbon footprint and cuts down the usage of energy by 40 percent, reports Martin LaMonica.
The liquid-cooled supercomputer called Aquasar, analyses fluid dynamics while providing heat for the building. It consists of two IBM BladeCenter servers in one rack. "The main goal of the project is to show that liquid cooled computers are possible," says an IBM representative.
The supercomputer has a liquid cooled processor with small pipelines and dubbed microchannel coolers. These pipelines allow the coolant to be pumped from the processor to the building's under-floor radiant heating system, where a heat exchange will remove the heat from the water and pump cool water back to the server.
The IBM-ETH Zurich research project is designed to demonstrate the potential efficiency of processor level liquid cooling, which uses waste heat from data centers to heat buildings. With a total consumption of 20 Kilowatts, the carbon footprint would be lowered by 85 percent.
