IBM's Aquasar Liquid-cooled Supercomputer Keeps You Warm

Folks are always worried about their computers overheating, but what if you could take the heat off from your computer and use it to heat your room instead, keeping you toasty warm? Well, the folks over at IBM are working on something similar. The liquid-cooled supercomputer that just went live is called Aquasar and sports a liquid-cooled processor that has small pipelines, dubbed microchannel coolers. These pipelines allow the coolant to be pumped from the processor to the building’s under-floor radiant heating system, where a heat exchange will remove the heat from the water and pump cool water back to the server. The waste heat will then be used to heat the building. IBM is estimating that the liquid-cooled system uses 40 percent less energy and consumes about 20 kilowatts. Now we’re just waiting for this technology to become common in our living rooms.

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