IBM and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich plan to build a water-cooled supercomputer whose surplus heat will be re-used to heat the university's buildings. The Aquasar supercomputer ...

Using hot water to cool supercomputers? Nvidia and others are doing it. It’s liquid cooling minus the water chillers.

With the ISC (International Supercomputer Conference) kicking off this week, there's been a flurry of announcements around new supercomputer buildouts. One of the more interesting systems debuting ...

According to IBM, the processor delivers two-to-three times the performance per core of comparable HP or Sun processors. In addition, IBM said that design improvements allow the POWER6 to run the same ...