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 ...

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 ...

Continuing with its research on using water to cool chips, IBM Corp today introduced a supercomputer that uses water-chilled copper plates located above each microprocessor to remove heat from the ...