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An indication of how times have changed: Articles about supercomputers written in the 1990s expended extra effort focusing on refrigeration techniques used to
by winestock 15y ago
An indication of how times have changed: Articles about supercomputers written in the 1990s expended extra effort focusing on refrigeration techniques used to keep the machine at an optimal temperature. The first few paragraphs of this article focus on energy requirements needed to run the computer at all.
- mirceagoia 15y agoYes, indeed. But I suppose this also needs cooling. Lots of it.
- winestock 15y agoNo doubt about it. Pumping megawatts into any box will bring up cooling issues. I read a quote from the director of operations or some such at Cray Research back in the mid-1990s: "Basically, I run a refrigerator company."
- mirceagoia 15y agoThat's a good one :).
- samstave 15y agoYou can build it in the arctic, finland, alaska, under the freaking sea. There are MANY ways to cool things. Why must it be built in a region which hits 100 degrees every summer?