

| Subject: | Phrydae: Super-computer soon to use water-cooled system for heating occupants |
| From: | Peter DiFalco |
| Date: | Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:20:37 -0700 |
http://www.livescience.com/technology/Water-Cooled-Supercomputers-Internet-100415.html FTA: "Since water and electronics don't mix, the coolant water in Aquasar does not ever directly touch the silicon computer chips themselves. If a leak should occur, internal sensors would shut the machine down before causing a short circuit." Hey, I wonder why they don't just let it set off a buzzer and make white smoke... "The tubes interspersed in Aquasar will link back to the primary water transportation network where some of the collected heat will then be passively released back into the heating system of ETH Zurich." ....Which implies that the building's occupants will need to wear their earmuffs and overcoats until the programmers have had a chance to drive the supercomputer around the block for half an hour. The real question is whether they'll still have toasty feet even while the air conditioning's on in the summer. Happy Friday!
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