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> They "solved" the heat problems with airconditioning and fans. Wrong. Read at least the related Wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2 https

• dragontamer 10y ago
  Looks like an air conditioner to me. Its a liquid that absorbs heat, evaporates... while in gaseous form it is pumped to another location where it condenses and pumps heat out. Yeah, its nothing more than a fancy air conditioner. http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/how_it_works/images/air_conditioning_system.jpg http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/how_it_works/images/air_condit... In any case: I'm curious why you think this cabinet hold any use with regard to nanometer scale engineering tasks: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/1985-Cray-2-side-view.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/1985-Cra... There's a big difference between "cooling down a cabinet" and "cooling down a 10x10nm hotspot" ----------- IBM's "liquid cooled chips" might be a potential solution: where water is pumped through channels on the die itself. (!!!). The water absorbs the heat directly from the die. https://www.cnet.com/news/how-ibm-is-making-computers-more-like-your-brain-for-real/ https://www.cnet.com/news/how-ibm-is-making-computers-more-l... But the technological hurdles to accomplish this sort of task are massive! IBM's done it, but no one else has figured out how to do it. So its not a simple task by any stretch of the imagination.