The computer will be built for the Argonne National Laboratory, and will be used to design electric vehicle batteries, climate research and the evolution of the universe
Argonne National Laboratory, of the US Department of Energy, will use a new generation of IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer in a number of research areas, including the design of highly efficient batteries for electric cars, climate change analysis and space exploration.
IBM's new supercomputer, IBM Blue Gene/Q, which has already been nicknamed "Mira" (Mira), will perform calculations at a rate of 10 petaflops - 20 times greater power than the Blue Gene/P computer, which currently performs 500 trillion operations per second.
In one single second of calculation, the "Mira" system will be able to perform the same amount of operations as all the residents of the United States (more than 300 million) of any age would perform, if they completed one calculation operation every second, for almost an entire year of work continuous around the clock.
The computer will come into use during 2012 and will provide researchers with a new tool for building models and running complex simulations.
In preparation for the launch of the new computer, next year, the laboratories of the US Department of Energy have selected 16 projects in a wide variety of fields and problems, which will be the first to benefit from access to this unprecedented processing power.
Upon completion of construction and full operation, IBM's "Mira" system is expected to be the most powerful computer system in the world. This is thanks to a combination of innovative chip design, and a particularly efficient water cooling system that allows these processors to be run at higher speeds without fear of overheating.
The heads of the laboratory also predict that it will be possible to upgrade the new computer to processing powers at the levels of exa-flops. One exaflop is a thousand petaflops, or a million teraflops.
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It's funny that the Americans remembered research on batteries only recently when China had already overtaken them in the round
Nico what is your suggestion?
In the air conditioner and the refrigerator, the gas flows in pipes from/to the cooling elements. A fan located near them pushes cold air into the space of the room/refrigerator. It is probably inefficient - to cool the entire space when local cooling is required on the chips. Do you suggest placing the cooling elements on the chips? So you haven't solved anything - there are still pipes that lead to all the chips, only now gas flows through them, and again, the cooling is less efficient than water cooling.
Gas cooling is not normal air cooling
Gas cooling is the same technology that is used in air conditioners and refrigerators, compression and expansion of gas to obtain cooling, such systems are able to cool below 0 relatively easily.
The enlarged image (taken from the image properties in the article)
https://www.hayadan.org.il/images/content3/2011/02/blueGene-Q.jpg
Nico and others:
This is not just water cooling.
It is written here about "a particularly efficient water cooling system" - a system that is the result of serious research in itself.
Read, for example, here:
https://www.hayadan.org.il/ibm_coolling_technology_006/
to 1 (Nico). If it was the same, no one would use water cooling
Nowhere and especially in internal combustion engines in cars and airplanes (ibid
The water and piping add a lot of critical weight). Humanity would save
the whole mess of scale, leaks, water filling, mechanical complication,
water pump and more.
Believe me, many people thought about it and preferred water cooling in most cases.
Maybe I will finally be able to watch movies in direct view without it getting stuck....
I want to buy one of these for home (to play Crysis of course) how much does it cost?
The difference between water and air cooling is similar to the difference between water and air engine cooling, this is a completely different level of cooling
I wonder if he runs crysys 2 on high
seriously:
"A particularly efficient water cooling kit that allows these processors to be run at higher speeds without fear of overheating."
It's not that new.. and they couldn't just connect the computer to a big air conditioner? Like gas cooling?