The Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Jaguar supercomputer is undergoing a $97 million upgrade that will not only result in a name change — soon to be known as “Titan” — but also stands a good chance of ruling the Top500 list of supercomputers when it’s complete in 2012. If and when that occurs, they’ll have graphics […]
Oil spill’s spread simulated on Intel’s green supercomputer
Oh, the irony! Intel’s supercomputer, called the Encanto and ranking number 32 on the Green500 list, was called into service to forecast the spread of oil from the Gulf of Mexico. Consisting of 3,500 quad-core Xeon processors, the 28-cabinet, water-cooled system helped the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) predict the spread of undersea oil […]
Green IT News Roundup – Monday, July 27
In measuring data center power use, more (info) is more – SearchDataCenter.com Large data center operators like Microsoft and Google have already said that measuring power consumption is key to energy efficiency. Last year, Microsoft demonstrated how it measured power…
IBM Tops Green500
No stranger to ranking high on the Top500 list of supercomputers, IBM is also racking up eco-points with a formidable presence on the Green500 list. In the latest ranking, IBM dominates the top 20, with the first spot going to…
IBM Supercomputer's Liquid Cooling Tech to Keep School Toasty
Aquasar, IBM’s super computer for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich will have liquid-cooled chips to efficiently remove the heat they generate. The micro-channel cooler technology is nice, but the real kicker is that the heat will…
