http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/water-cooled-aquasar-supercomputer-does-math-heats-dorm-rooms/ Engadget Comments for Water-cooled Aquasar supercomputer does math, heats dorm rooms http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/water-cooled-aquasar-supercomputer-does-math-heats-dorm-rooms/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/water-cooled-aquasar-supercomputer-does-math-heats-dorm-rooms/Jun 25th 2009 5:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/water-cooled-aquasar-supercomputer-does-math-heats-dorm-rooms/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/water-cooled-aquasar-supercomputer-does-math-heats-dorm-rooms/Jun 25th 2009 5:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/water-cooled-aquasar-supercomputer-does-math-heats-dorm-rooms/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/water-cooled-aquasar-supercomputer-does-math-heats-dorm-rooms/IMO it is much clever not to convert this excess heat and use it as is were needed. No losses, and you can use the cut you'll get on central heating to help pay your supercomputer's power bill.
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You can buy a TEC and VRY carefully apply heat to one side and make sure the other side is REALLY cool and connect the leads to a volt meter and you will see the Seebeck effect in action....

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Either way, using the waste heat generated to heat things is the most efficient use, no argument.]]>Jun 25th 2009 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/water-cooled-aquasar-supercomputer-does-math-heats-dorm-rooms/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/water-cooled-aquasar-supercomputer-does-math-heats-dorm-rooms/Jun 25th 2009 5:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/water-cooled-aquasar-supercomputer-does-math-heats-dorm-rooms/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/water-cooled-aquasar-supercomputer-does-math-heats-dorm-rooms/
At work (edb.com) we have a similar system using heat from the server rooms to heat the building. The servers are not directly water cooled, but the rooms are. Apparantly the company saves around $160k/year on the heating bill.]]>Jun 25th 2009 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/water-cooled-aquasar-supercomputer-does-math-heats-dorm-rooms/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/water-cooled-aquasar-supercomputer-does-math-heats-dorm-rooms/Jun 25th 2009 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/water-cooled-aquasar-supercomputer-does-math-heats-dorm-rooms/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/water-cooled-aquasar-supercomputer-does-math-heats-dorm-rooms/
And the whole 10 teraflops is really hard to utilize and code on a GPU. If we're talking here of mathematical processing wherein the calculations could survive with a small dataset and is ideally a loop, then you'd get your 10 teraflops.]]>Jul 14th 2009 5:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/water-cooled-aquasar-supercomputer-does-math-heats-dorm-rooms/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/water-cooled-aquasar-supercomputer-does-math-heats-dorm-rooms/
Anyway, so let me get this straight. Now, to run a fast server, we'll need network engineers...and plumbers?? I'd hate to be there when/if the thing springs a leak. Unless, of course, they use Fluorinert, which would take this to a whole new level of Cool, no pun intended.]]>Jun 25th 2009 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/water-cooled-aquasar-supercomputer-does-math-heats-dorm-rooms/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/water-cooled-aquasar-supercomputer-does-math-heats-dorm-rooms/Jun 25th 2009 12:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/water-cooled-aquasar-supercomputer-does-math-heats-dorm-rooms/http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/25/water-cooled-aquasar-supercomputer-does-math-heats-dorm-rooms/Jun 26th 2009 7:39AM