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Tag Archives: power
Cost: The Biggest Pothole on the Exascale Road
Recently, industry analyst John Barr wrote at the ISC blog about “Potholes on the Road to Exascale”. John speaks about a unified programming environment that should be able to support all sorts of computing devices of the future. That’s right: … Continue reading
Exascale Supercomputers: Anything but Cheap
Science and engineering both rely on the continuous increase in supercomputing performance. Back in 2009, it was believed that exascale machines will become available by 2018 — nine years ahead seemed like a lot of time. No one knew how … Continue reading
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How To Size Your UPS System: More Power, Igor!
We now have a tool to size UPS systems! Find it in the menu above, or use this link. (As for the headline, Igor is a character of Tom Holt’s novel, “Igor”)
Fruits of Computing: Redefining “Green” in HPC Energy Usage
Suppose you are visiting a supercomputing centre for several days. Each day you submit your compute jobs and then go to a nearby tropical garden. While your jobs are being computed, you enjoy fresh tropical fruit, listen to exotic birds … Continue reading
Electrochemical Power Supply and Water Cooling, In One Go
I was searching the IBM website to find info on their cooling system, Aquasar, in the hope to find a better way to learn about it rather than just looking at their hardware. And indeed, I found something new and … Continue reading
Open Hardware Paves the Way to Commodity Water Cooled Servers
Google is making its own custom servers, but they don’t disclose many important details. On the contrary, Facebook is trying to provide as much information as possible about their own custom servers — in the hope it will benefit the … Continue reading