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Power6 IS NOT energy Efficient
Water cooling is a bandaid. Why isn't IBM fixing the power consumption/ heat challenges at the CPU level? A rack of p 575's which is 448 Power6-cores @ 4.7 GHz consumes 71.7 kW !! At the rate that IBM's Power CPU developemnts continue to consume power and generate massive heat, they'll need more than water to cool these hot chips down!Aye, and water's an improvement over milk
I believe the last milk-cooled super-beast was booted in Curdistained. Oops! I've gone and spilt it now! [sob]Sod.
IBM has been using chilled-water since they were building those huge 3270 locomotives, and inventing DP, and other such dervish.
Old news
Supercomputers have been watercooled since long before it was fashionable.I dont see what the big deal here is. Other than it being one beastly computing unit.
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