The first commercially available computer system that is cooled with hot water rather than air was unveiled at the Leibniz Supercomputer Centre in Munich. The IBM iDataplex system removes heat 4,000 times more efficiently than air-cooled systems using a new form of IBM’s hot-water cooling technology. It cools active components in the system such as processors and memory modules … [Read more...]
Research Program Attempts Embedded Cooling
DARPA’s Intrachip/Interchip Enhanced Cooling (ICECool) program seeks to explore embedded thermal management by bringing microfluidic cooling inside the substrate, chip or package by including thermal management in the earliest stages of electronics design. This embedded cooling comes in the form of microchannels designed and built directly into chips, substrates and packages. … [Read more...]
Stanford Physicists Create Ultracold Quantum Fermionic Gas
A Stanford team announced that it has created the world's first dipolar quantum fermionic gas from the metal dysprosium. The team heated particles in a crucible to around 1,300 degrees Celsius and shot them into a powerful vacuum. Using a continuous-wave blue laser, the particles were then cooled to within a thousandth of a degree of absolute zero. Subsequent lasers and an … [Read more...]
Silicon Carbide’s Potential in Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
Encouraged by silicon carbide’s superior material properties, major automotive manufacturers involved in developing hybrid and electric vehicles are currently testing SiC-based MOSFETs and other transistors as a viable alternative to silicon-based transistors, particularly for under-the-hood applications where the operating conditions are challenging. The wide-bandgap material … [Read more...]
Server Failures Don’t Rise Along With the Heat
Researchers at the University of Toronto, who studied data on equipment failures at data centers operated by Google, Los Alamos National Labs, and Canada’s SciNet HPC consortium, conclude that the effect of high data center temperatures on system reliability is smaller than often assumed. For DRAM failures and node outages, no evidence for a correlation with higher … [Read more...]
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