Alex Kampl Allied Control Company Abstract Recently, Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining have aroused international interest. This article describes the cooling challenges faced by Bitcoin miners and discusses the implications on the future of cooling for supercomputers, HPC clusters and other high density electronics. We explain the inner workings of the first commercial open … [Read more...]
Liquid Helium Cools Superconductive Cables
Scientists at Florida State University have used helium gas to cool superconductive cables in a breakthrough that could enable the development of next-generation power systems for future naval ships with advanced weapons systems. The discovery was made as part of a research project examining the use of high-conductivity electrical cables in power applications for naval vessels … [Read more...]
NSA to Cool New Data Center with Wastewater in Controversial Deal
The National Security Agency (NSA) has announced plans to use 5 million gallons per day of treated wastewater from Howard County in Maryland to cool its huge Fort Meade data center, which is expected to be completed in 2016. According to The Baltimore Sun, the NSA will cover the $40 million required to build the needed pump station, and will pay up to $2 million each year for … [Read more...]
Electrical Field Facilitates Better Heat Transfer
The application of an electric field to a condenser could double the efficiency of surface heat transfer in power plant and high performance computing cooling systems, according to new research released by scientists at MIT. The discovery—made by MIT postdoc Nenad Miljkovic, associate professor of mechanical engineering Evelyn Wang, graduate student Daniel Preston, and former … [Read more...]
Cooling the Cloud: Energy-Efficient Warm-Water Cooling of Servers
Milnes P. David, Robert Simons, David Graybill, Vinod Kamath, Bejoy Kochuparambil, Robert Rainey and Roger Schmidt ; IBM Systems & Technology Group, Poughkeepsie, New York and Raleigh, North Carolina Pritish Parida, Mark Schultz, Michael Gaynes and Timothy Chainer; IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York INTRODUCTION Data centers now consume a … [Read more...]
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