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Aquasar: Water Used for Cooling, Heating
Earlier today we wrote about Aquasar, a supercomputer developed by IBM and the Swiss research center ETH, which features a liquid cooling technique that allows for waste heat to be reused to warm buildings at the Zurich ETH university campus. IBM has released a video offering a high-level overview of the Aquasar system, which runs about 2 minutes.
For more news from Big Blue, visit our IBM channel. For additional video, check out our DCK video archive and the Data Center Videos channel on YouTube.
About Rich Miller
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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